Summary of Margalit Fox's The Confidence Men

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#1 Some of the British officers at Yozgad dreamed of escaping, but they knew it would bring severe reprisals if they did. They decided they would rather lose their privileges than their lives.

#2 The Ottoman Empire had entered the war in the autumn of 1914 after allying itself with the Central Powers. The Allies, including Britain, France, and Russia, declared war on Turkey soon afterward.

#3 Harry’s father, Henry, was a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He had been awarded the professorship by the eighteenth-century economic philosopher Adam Smith.

#4 Harry’s family suffered a lot during his childhood. His brother Will died in 1906 from appendicitis, and his sister Jeanie died in 1910 of complications from surgery. Harry became addicted to opium, and when he married Mair in 1913, she had to return to Britain with their first child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822524828

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#1

Some of the British officers at Yozgad dreamed of escaping, but they knew it would bring severe reprisals if they did. They decided they would rather lose their privileges than their lives.

#2

The Ottoman Empire had entered the war in the autumn of 1914 after allying itself with the Central Powers. The Allies, including Britain, France, and Russia, declared war on Turkey soon afterward.

#3

Harry’s father, Henry, was a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He had been awarded the professorship by the eighteenth-century economic philosopher Adam Smith.

#4

Harry’s family suffered a lot during his childhood. His brother Will died in 1906 from appendicitis, and his sister Jeanie died in 1910 of complications from surgery. Harry became addicted to opium, and when he married Mair in 1913, she had to return to Britain with their first child.

#5

The Sixth Division had been in Mesopotamia since the autumn of 1914 and had enjoyed early victories there. It captured Amarah in spring 1915. The British had few shallow-draft ships able to navigate the rivers in the low-water season.

#6

The British advance guard entered Kut-al-Amara in late September, capturing the town in a battle of September 27–28. Kut stood on a peninsula, two miles long and a mile wide, in a loop of the Tigris. It was an Arab town of about 7,000 people, and the British did not plan to stay there long.

#7

By mid-November, Jones was stationed at Kut, helping erect gun emplacements. He was now a junior officer, though he assured his brother gunners that he was still one of them. He filched a wing from one of Force D’s airplanes and used it to shore up his dugout.

#8

The Ottoman Empire took 8 million to 9 million prisoners of war during World War I, and interned them in camps all