X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II "Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees--a top-secret band of…
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X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
"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 TheLiberatorThe 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 nowJune 1942. 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 shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the European continent.
Many have been interned as enemy aliens, and have The resulting volunteers are a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most from Germany and Austria.