The Houdini Club: The Epic Journey and Daring Escapes of the First Army Rangers of WWII

Highlighted by the prisoner-of-war escapes that earned them the name “The Houdini Club,” here is the elite combat odyssey of World War II’s “Darby’s Rangers” as never told before—drawing on previously unknown sources and former Army Ranger Mir Bahmanyar’s exclusive, uncensored interviews with the greatest generation of Rangers themselves.

This thrilling, personality-driven account of the first United States Army Ranger battalions follows an extraordinary band of American soldiers from their ...