The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit.
The young men who would become known as The Ritchie Boys arrived in America as enemy aliens, and although they were allowed to enlist in the U.S. military, they were distrusted by everyone. So, in effect, they became outsiders all over again. Until one day in 1942, when the Pentagon woke up to the incredible asset they had on their hands. These men knew the language, culture and psychology of the enemy better than any Americans and had the greatest motivation to fight Hitler s anti-Semitic regime. The Pentagon came up with a top-secret plan to harness their expertise by training them in the art of prisoner interrogation. And so off they were sent, back into the belly of the beast, Jews returning to Nazi Germany to occupy the very front lines of battlefields across Europe. Many of them re-entered Europe on D-Day. Their mission, to extract vital intel from freshly-captured POWs about troop movements and command structures and so on, was hugely successful and provided key information that led to victory by the Allied forces.
Meanwhile, few of these men knew what had happened to the families they left behind in Germany, families who had sacrificed to send them on to the safety of America. As the intelligence they gathered revealed increasingly horrific details about the Holocaust (most of which was only then beginning to come to light), they came to fear and, in many cases, discovered that the worst had befallen their own fathers and mothers and siblings.

Sons and Soldiers: The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution

Biographies & Memoirs

Bruce Henderson

Historical

William Collins

Sons and Soldiers

Rescue at Los Banos: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II

HarperCollins US

Sons & Soldiers: The Untold Story Of The Jews Who Escaped The Nazis & Returned With The U.s. Army To Fight Hitler

Morrow

"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."―Cleveland Plain Dealer ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. And the Sea Will Tell reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine scenario of death.

And the Sea Will Tell

VINCENT BUGLIOSI

Literature & Fiction

W.W.Norton&Company

Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War

Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War

History

Antonio J. Méndez

Jonna Méndez

Military

Pocket_Books

This is one of the best works to explain Swedenborg's conception of the afterlife.

Window to Eternity

Religion & Spirituality

Swedenborg Foundation

Thinking Globally

Why avoid meat, fish or dairy products? What benefits might a vegan diet bring? What is the difference between not being sick and enjoying optimal health? Read about outrages of our food industry in the section Food Horror Stories. Discover delicious, nutritionpacked alternative foods that can help you toward a healthier future as well as help our environment. A Vegan Primer explains the basics for getting started as a vegetarian or vegan, offering recipes, diet tips and carefully researched information. This book gives you the tools to take care of your body and by extension to manage stress and improve your mental outlook as well.

A Vegan Primer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lulu Publishing Services

As one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, Gordon Cooper was a 20th-century pioneer, testing the limits of technology and the human body and opening new vistas of physical and intellectual exploration.  In Leap of Faith, Cooper not only reveals what went on behind the scenes of the early U.S. space program, he also confronts a question that will be at the heart of space exploration in the 21st century: Is there life beyond our planet?  Cooper believes emphatically that there is. He describes his personal encounters with UFOs - and with the U.S. government's longstanding program of covering up even plausible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. On this subject, there is no more credible witness than Gordon Cooper -- and no more courageous, compelling, or thought-provoking account than Leap of Faith.

Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown

Gordon Cooper

Americas

HighBridge Company

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