Books like The escape artists by Neal Bascomb

A biography of Oleg Gordievsky, the Soviet double‑agent who, while working undercover in the KGB, supplied MI6 with critical intelligence that accelerated the collapse of the Cold War.

Jim Simons transformed Wall Street with Renaissance Technologies’ algorithmic Medallion Fund, delivering 66% annual returns and over $100 B in profits, while his quantitative approach reshaped finance and intersected with U.S. and European politics.

During World War II, more than ten thousand U.S. women were recruited by the Army and Navy from towns and elite colleges to serve as codebreakers in Washington, whose efforts shortened the war and opened new career paths.

During World War II in Warsaw, the Zabinskis run the city’s zoo while secretly aiding the resistance to rescue Jews from the ghetto.

After the Nuremberg trials, a dedicated group of men and women tracked down ex‑Nazi officials around the globe, determined to expose their crimes and prevent them from living undetected.

An eyewitness account of the 1944 breakout from Stalag Luft III, where 76 Allied officers tunneled to freedom, gained vital intelligence, and challenged Gestapo reprisals—revealing the bravery that inspired the film "The Great Escape".

With sixteen other POWs, author Charles McCormac broke out from his POW camp in Japanese-occupied Singapore and began a two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Australia. The POWs's escape took a staggering five months and only two out of the original seventeen men survived. This is McCormac'ss compelling true account of one of the most horrifying and amazing escapes in World War Two. It is a story of courage, endurance and compassion, and makes for a very gripping read.

In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pass as Picard peasants. The Englishman's Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret. Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as "The Englishman's Daughter," and in an act of unspeakable betrayal, a tragic legacy that would haunt the village for generations to come. Through the testimonies of the villagers and the last letters of the soldiers, acclaimed journalist Ben Macintyre has pieced together a harrowing account of how life was lived behind enemy lines during the Great War, and offers a compelling solution to a gripping mystery that reverberates to this day. - Publisher.

A gripping non-fiction account of World War I pilots who orchestrated a daring escape from German captivity, showcasing their ingenuity and resolve during the war’s darkest moments.