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 ...

Nearly everyone at U.S. central command agreed that the sprawling Faw oil-refining and -shipping facility on Iraq’s southeastern coast was a must-seize first-night target in the war on Baghdad–almost ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only thirty years later did the United States officially acknowledge the battle at the clandestine site. Etchberger would finally be awarded the Medal of Honor in a ...

In June 1942, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff devised an unusual plan: the creation of a new, top-secret commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who had escaped to the United Kingdom. Called ...

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 ...