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E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones
1883–1942
Best known for the astonishing wartime memoir The Road to En-dor, this Welsh writer lived a life that was every bit as dramatic as his book. Soldier, civil servant, and survivor, he turned an extraordinary escape story into a classic of First World War literature.
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The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom
by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones
About the author
Born in Aberystwyth in 1883, Elias Henry Jones was a Welsh author and administrator, and the eldest son of the philosopher Sir Henry Jones. Sources on his life describe him as educated at Glasgow University and later connected with service in India and Burma.
He is remembered above all for The Road to En-dor, the memoir that grew out of his captivity during the First World War. While a prisoner in Turkey, he and fellow captive C. W. Hill carried out a remarkable escape plan based on feigned supernatural visions and apparent madness, and the book made that strange, tense episode famous.
Jones died in 1942. Although he held administrative and military roles during his life, his lasting reputation comes from the vivid, unusual way he wrote about endurance, invention, and survival under pressure.