World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Turkish
_Morning Post._--“It is easily the most surprising story
of the escape of prisoners of war which has yet
appeared.... No more effective exposure of the methods of
the medium has ever been written.... This book is indeed
an invaluable reduction to absurdity of the claims of the
spiritualist coteries.”
_Daily Telegraph._--“This is one of the most realistic,
grimmest, and at the same time most entertaining, books
ever given to the public.... ‘The Road to En-dor’ is a
book with a thrill on every page, is full of genuine
adventure.... Everybody should read it.”
_Times._--“Astounding.... Of great value.”
_Punch._--“The most extraordinary war-tale which has come
my way.”
_Birmingham Post._--“The story of surely the most
colossal ‘fake’ of modern times.”
_Daily Graphic._--“The most amazing story of the war.”
_Outlook._--“It deserves to become a classic.”
_Evening News._--“The tale of the two lieutenants is
perhaps the noblest example of the game and fine art of
spoof that the world has ever seen, or ever will see ...
their wonderful and almost monstrous elaboration ... an
amazing story.”
_Bystander._--“The book reads like the wildest romance.”
_Glasgow Evening News._--“An absolutely fresh,
unexpected, and inimitable true story of what we fancy is
the greatest spoof of the Great War.”
_Everyman._--“One of the most amazing tales that we have
ever read. The gradual augmentation of the spook’s power
is one of the most preposterous, the most laughable
histories in the whole literature of spoofing. Lieut.
Jones has given us a wonderful book--even a great book.”
_New Statesman._--“This amazing story is told in great
detail, but never tedious.”
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO ST., W. 1
THE SILENCE OF COLONEL BRAMBLE
By ANDRÉ MAUROIS
Second Edition. +5s.+ net.
_Westminster Gazette._--“‘The Silence of Colonel Bramble’
is the best composite character sketch I have seen to
show France what the English gentleman at war is like ...
much delightful humour.... It is full of good stories....
The translator appears to have done his work wonderfully
well.”
_Daily Telegraph._--“This book has enjoyed a great
success in France, and it will be an extraordinary thing
if it is not equally successful here.... Those who do not
already know the book in French will lose nothing of its
charm in English form. The humours of the mess-room are
inimitable.... The whole thing is real, alive,
sympathetic; there is not a false touch in all its
delicate, glancing wit.... One need not be a Frenchman to
appreciate its wisdom and its penetrating truth.”
_Star._--“An excellent translation ... a gay and daring
translation ... I laughed over its audacious humour.”
_Times._--“This admirable French picture of English
officers.”
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