I found The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox on NPR’s Best Books of 2021 List. I found it listed under “funny stuff,” although I probably wouldn’t categorize this book that way myself. This non-fiction story takes place during World War I, in a Turkish POW camp for British officers. We first meet Harry Jones. We learn how he joined the war, how he was taken prisoner, and how he came to be at the remote […]
It’s good to be an officer–especially if you’re a POW
The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox