The Road to En-Dor / Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom

The narrative recounts how two prisoners of war confined in an Ottoman camp create a sophisticated hoax based on staged séances and feigned mediumship to manipulate fellow inmates and their captors. Through invented spirit communications, theatrical tricks, and bureaucratic forgeries they extract comforts, privileges, official correspondence, and ultimately a route to freedom, while exposing the credulity and social effects of spiritualism. The account blends practical improvisation, wartime camaraderie, legal jeopardy, and comic observation of camp life.