Book : X Troop The Secret Jewish Commandos Of World War Ii -

-Titulo Original : X Troop The Secret Jewish Commandos Of World War Ii

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Mariner Books

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“Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees-a top-secret band of brothers-who waged war on Hitler.”-Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The Longest Winter and The LiberatorThe incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit-but whose story has gone untold until now June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who have escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers are a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most from Germany and Austria. Many have been interned as enemy aliens, and have lost their families, their homes-their whole worlds. They will stop at nothing to defeat the Nazis. Trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat, this top secret unit becomes known as X Troop. Some simply call them a suicide squad. Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews with the last surviving members, Leah Garrett follows this unique band of brothers from Germany to England and back again, with stops at British internment camps, the beaches of Normandy, the battlefields of Italy and Holland, and the hellscape of Terezin concentration camp-the scene of one of the most dramatic, untold rescues of the war. For the first time, X Troop tells the astonishing story of these secret shock troops and their devastating blows against the Nazis.“Garrett’s detective work is stunning, and her storytelling is masterful. This is an original account of Jewish rescue, resistance, and revenge.”-Wendy Lower, author of The Ravine and National Book Award finalist Hitler’s Furies Review Based on declassified military records, wartime diaries, and interviews with commandos and their families, X Troop vividly charts the special units missions, from storming Pegasus Bridge on D-Day to successfully liberating a troopers parents from the Theresienstadt concentration camp to capturing escaped Nazis after the war. - SmithsonianGripping . . . relight[s] the lamps of the past so that they glow anew. - Times of LondonAn invaluable study . . . Garrett must be congratulated for pulling all these stories together by bringing praiseworthy attention to these young Jewish resisters of Nazism who became among the most noble and courageous of liberators during World War II... their service is no longer a secret and deserves widespread recognition, thanks to this beautifully constructed book. - James Kirby Martin, The New York Journal of Books A thrilling, stirring story, well told. - Daily Telegraph (London)Reading Garretts fluent and engaging account should make anyone tempted to feel jingoistic about Britain during the Second World War think twice. - Richard Overy, Literary Review The page-turning account is replete with heretofore unknown astounding feats thanks to the authors success in declassifying long-sealed, top-secret British military records . . . Garretts excellent new book corrects the record by fully recounting the X Troopers exploits and accurately reflecting who they were. - The Times of Israel “Garrett has a keen, cinematic eye for the human moment that speaks a much larger truth. And she’s an exceptional writer with a rare gift-no doubt helped by her immersion in classic American accounts of war-for conveying the fear and adrenaline-fueled anarchy of combat. Her account of the D-Day landing, seen through the eyes of her protagonists, is vivid and starkly unsentimental. . . . It is sometimes hard to look, but Garrett draws us in, and X Troop’s 368 pages move very quickly indeed.” - Jewish Review of BooksInspirational . . . Garrett is to be commended for bringing to life this little-known tale of extraordinary wartime heroism by this group of Jewish