Life as they knew it was snatched away. The Nazis took all: their families, homes, and countries. In the end, all they had left were their names. Then they gave up their birth names to be part of the ...

The 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 ...

Editor’s Note: Leah Garrett is a professor at Hunter College. She is the author of “Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel” and “X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of ...

X Troop at Aberdovey, 1943. Peter Masters is in the back row, second from the left; Colin Anson is in the second row from the back, twelfth from the left; Manfred Gans is in the third row from the ...

Despite the many special-ops chronicles of recent""walk-overs"" in the Middle East, the Vietnam war is still the mythic heartland of great commando literature. A case in point is this gripping memoir ...