11 must-read historical books like Escape From Colditz by P.R. Reid

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Escape From Colditz

By: P.R. Reid

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Combines The Colditz Story and Men of Colditz into one volume.

If you liked the historical plot in Escape From Colditz by P.R. Reid , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

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2. A Piece of the World

By: Christina Baker Kline

3.86

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and … read more

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  • historical
"You're not shy. You just like who you like."

-Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

"This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting."

-Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

"I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose."

-Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

"My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards."

-Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

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3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , Arthur Pober , Lucy Corvino , Martin Woodside

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Following Sterlings spectacularly successful launch of its childrens classic novels (240,000 books … read more

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4. Miguel Strogoff

By: Jules Verne

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

En el siglo XIX se produce una sublevacion en Siberia, liderada por el tartaro Feofar-Khan, secunda… read more

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5. The Women in the Castle

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of Germ… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
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6. The First And The Last

By: Adolf Galland

2.74

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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7. The Impossible Dead

By: Ian Rankin

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more

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8. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Semi-Finalist in the Science & Technology category in the Choice Awards. Foreword by Steven Pinker,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Tishomingo Blues

By: Elmore Leonard

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississipp… read more

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10. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

By: Helen Simonson

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled wi… read more

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11. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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12. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

By: Denise Kiernan

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial r… read more

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13. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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14. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more

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15. Laurus

By: None , Lisa Hayden

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more

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16. Uncommon Type

By: Tom Hanks

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is a… read more

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17. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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18. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

By: David Maraniss

4.02

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the … read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
"Compulsion is the death of friendship."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

"I sew his ears on from time to time, sure."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

"I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

"Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

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21. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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22. H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death a… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
"Jack, you've debauched my sloth."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It woul…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the au…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

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23. 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
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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24. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

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25. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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27. Night Boat to Tangier

By: Kevin Barry

3.62

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more

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"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

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28. Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #2)

By: A.J. Pearce

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman’s Friend… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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29. The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

By: Headline

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on th… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of t…"

-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

"Decades later, it's striking to see the archival center clearly articulating the value of collections like Estelle's, using words that no one in the archdiocese could muster at the time of the sale: …"

-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

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30. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II

By: Adam Makos

4.53

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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31. Escape From Colditz

By: P.R. Reid

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Combines The Colditz Story and Men of Colditz into one volume. read more

Similar categories in P.R. Reid's Escape From Colditz book and P.R. Reid's Escape From Colditz

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

9 Top history books like Escape From Colditz by P.R. Reid

Transform Your Habits

The First And The Last

Adolf Galland

2.74

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

4.02

Transform Your Habits

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

Ben Macintyre

4.26

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9 best-selling historical books like Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II by Adam Makos

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

Alex Kershaw

4.17

Transform Your Habits

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

Bob Drury

4.34

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