Leah Garrett’s “X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis” tells of young men from Germany, Austria, and Hungary who became British commandos.

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.

2021 marks the 80th anniversary of America’s entry into World War II. As we observes a Memorial Day in transition – a de-escalating pandemic alongside rising anti-Semitism, political division ...

One of the commandos I interviewed, ninety-six at the time, insisted that I only refer to him in the book under a pseudonym since he had never told anyone that he was German or that his parents ...