Daily Graphic.—"The most amazing story of the war."
Spectator.—"The reader who begins this book after dinner will probably be found at one o'clock in the morning still reading, with eyes goggling and mouth open, beside his cold grate."
Punch.—"It is the most extraordinary war-tale which has come my way. The author is a sound craftsman with a considerable sense of style and construction. His record of adventures is really astounding."
Country Life.—"More exciting than any novel.... The book is a record or almost incredible courage and inventiveness."
Bystander.—"It is one of the most unexpected and engaging books for which the War has been responsible."
Pall Mall Gazette.—"A really entertaining account of a wonderfully successful and useful rag on an unusually big scale."
Westminster Gazette.—"Lieuts. Jones and Hill displayed an inventiveness, an ingenuity, and a patience worthy of the greatest admiration."
Outlook.—"The book deserves to become a classic."
Illustrated London News.—"It is an amazing story, humorously told, of a subtle and successful conspiracy to escape. But it is also a most telling indictment of the spiritualistic craze."
New Age.—"As a mere story of adventure and suffering the book is one of the most remarkable known to me; it is an epic of human ingenuity and human endurance."