8 Top biography books like Under the Wire by William Ash

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Under the Wire

By: William Ash

4.38

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

An enthralling memoir of WWII adventure: fighter pilot, fugitive in Paris, Gestapo prisoner, and ul…

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Cover of Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman

1. Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

By: Neil Gaiman

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monste… read more

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"Now me,"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"Mind the gap!"

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"So many things to see, people to do."

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

"Sometimes there is nothing you can do."

-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

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2. Dead Eye (Gray Man, #4)

By: Mark Greaney

4.41

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry gets hit with a blast from the past in the fourth Gray Man nove… read more

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3. I Am Death (Robert Hunter, #7)

By: Chris Carter

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Audio

AN EVIL MIND was Chris Carters's most acclaimed novel to date, described by the Daily mail as: 'A c… read more

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4. Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1)

By: Nicholas Eames

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Glory never gets old Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best -- the meanest, dirtie… read more

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5. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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6. The Colditz Story

By: P.R. Reid

3.10

Format: 151 pages,

Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

7. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

By: Anonymous , Philip Boehm , Hans Magnus Enzensberger

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian … read more

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8. A Little History of the World

By: E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

9. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

By: None , Mark Olshaker

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer i… read more

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10. Ballistic (Gray Man, #3)

By: Mark Greaney

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

After Court Gentry was betrayed by his compatriots and forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mis… read more

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11. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

By: Chris Hadfield

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours … read more

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12. The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1)

By: Mark Greaney

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, m… read more

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13. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

By: Marina Lewycka

3.93

Format: None pages,

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianwas bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut n… read more

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14. Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Marge Piercy

3.29

Format: None pages,

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more

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15. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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16. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more

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17. Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.57

Format: 534 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its i… read more

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"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “So not unnatural at all,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “Your dad’s kind of an asshole,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Nineteen: Elvi We just lost two gates, Admiral. And one of them had an entire world filled with people behind it."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

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18. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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19. Next in Line (William Warwick, #5)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.18

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. … read more

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20. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. Snow Country

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.71

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more

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  • war
"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."

-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country

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22. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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23. The Fall

By: Louise Jensen

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

She promised she wouldn’t tell. They made sure she couldn’t… At her surprise 40th birthday party… read more

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24. The Dinner Guest

By: B.P. Walter

3.63

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the perfect … read more

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25. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

By: Tom Clavin

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.On August 13, 1944,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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26. Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more

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"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

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27. Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

By: Harlan Coben

4.09

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger o… read more

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"It comforts us to think that we have control when we don’t."

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

"Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos—but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends"

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

"Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos—but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends."

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

"Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos - but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends."

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

Cover of Gallery of the Dead (Robert Hunter, #9) by Chris Carter

28. Gallery of the Dead (Robert Hunter, #9)

By: Chris Carter

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mi… read more

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29. Body Breaker (DI Avison Fluke #2)

By: M.W. Craven

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'This is high quality crime writing' A A DhandThe second dark and twisted thriller in the Avison Fl… read more

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30. Under the Wire

By: William Ash

4.38

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

An enthralling memoir of WWII adventure: fighter pilot, fugitive in Paris, Gestapo prisoner, and ul… read more

Similar categories in William Ash's Under the Wire book and William Ash's Under the Wire

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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31. The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp

By: Stephen R. Matthews

3.82

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

8 Best history books like Under the Wire by William Ash

Transform Your Habits

The Colditz Story

P.R. Reid

3.10

Transform Your Habits

A Little History of the World

E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Julian Sancton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

Alex Kershaw

4.32

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21 Top fiction books like The Dinner Guest by B.P. Walter

Transform Your Habits

The Mother

T.M. Logan

4.02

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The Dream Home

T.M. Logan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Magpie

Elizabeth Day

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Guilty Couple

C.L. Taylor

3.87

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