The Houdini Club

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.

Mir Bahmanyar earned a BA in History from UC Berkeley, enlisted in the Second Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and attained an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. He served on the Board of Directors for the 75th Ranger Regiment Association and was an Associate Historian of the World War Two Ranger Battalions Association. He has been a military technical advisor on such films as The Good German, Black Hawk Down, and We Were Soldiers; a German language coach; and a producer and writer in Hollywood. He co-wrote and produced the award-winning independent historical film Soldier of God and has authored numerous books and articles from ancient history to modern war, which have been translated into Arabic, German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and have featured on several US Army reading lists. Holding dual US and Canadian citizenship, he lives in Toronto.