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 ...

This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...

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 ...