Started: 4/11/2022
Completed: 4/15/2022
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Completed: 4/15/2022
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
I really enjoyed this use of the "big con" for prisoners to escape Turkey during WWI. Fox does a great job of explaining why it was possible for them to do this and to interweave the explanation with the historical account (told from several difference directions). Sadly, the huge effort of the escape only saved them two weeks as the armistice was reached as they arrived on English soil. It did, however, save them from a more dangerous escape performed by other officers which resulted in almost half dying on the difficult hundreds of miles they had to travel. Fox did a good job of identifying some of the horrors the soldiers faced without wallowing in the details which made the book more approachable for me.
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