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 ...

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 ...

They had fled Hitler’s Europe, lost families, and faced suspicion even after reaching Britain. Then these German-Jewish refugees became X-Troop, a secret commando force trained in sabotage, ...

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 ...

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 ...