E. H. Jones (2) (1883–1942)
Autore di The Road to En-Dor
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Opere di E. H. Jones
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Jones, Elias Henry
- Data di nascita
- 1883-09-21
- Data di morte
- 1942-12-22
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- United Kingdom
- Luogo di nascita
- Aberystwyth, Wales
- Luogo di morte
- Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
- Attività lavorative
- memoirist
army officer
government administrator - Breve biografia
- E.H. Jones is best known as the author of The Road to Endor , the classic account of a cunning escape in World War I . Jones joined the Indian Army as a private soldier and was commissioned just before he was taken prisoner by the Turks after the fall of Kut-el-Amara . He then survived a march of 700 miles to Yozgad , during which one in every seven of the prisoners died, and he was in captivity for three years before he and a comrade, feigning madness, were repatriated only a fortnight before the Armistice . The book was reprinted seventeen times and then ran into three editions.
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The Road to En-dor di E. H. Jones
Simultaneously a memoir of two prisoners of war doing whatever is necessary in order to win freedom and an amazing description of how several men in a Turkish prisoner of war camp managed to duplicate nearly every effect of the famous "spiritualists" of the day (what we would now call "mediums" or "psychics"). At first this was for amusement, but when some of their captors became believers in their abilities they attempted to use their "powers" to win their freedom. The descriptions are very detailed as the account was written as soon as the author was returned the UK, and the author's memory is supplemented by written records the prisoners were able to keep and smuggle out with them, and even some photographs they were able to secretly take and develop. While it is impossible to fully communicate such an extraordinary experience, this well-written account manages to give some of the flavor of it. The author communicates a real spirit of delight and adventure from their successes in working towards a means of escape that must have been the reason they were able to endure all the hardships and suffering; if anything he under-describes or omits much of the worst parts of their experiences.… (altro)
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- Popolarità
- #261,994
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 12