X troop : the secret Jewish commandos of World War Two
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.548641/GARRETT,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 351 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780358172031, 0358172039 :, 0358172039, 9780358172031
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Exile -- Behind the Wire -- The Pioneer Corps -- Joining the Fight -- Disaster at Dieppe -- The Elite of the Elite -- Italy -- The Field Marshal, The Water Polo Star & The Codebreaker -- Southampton, June 4, 1944 -- Sword Beach, June 6, 1944 -- Pegasus Bridge, June 6, 1944 -- Varaville and Beyond, June 7-15, 1944 -- Normandy Breakout -- The Adriatic -- Walcheren -- Crossing the Rhine -- The Final Push -- Into the Abyss -- Denazification
"The incredible World War II saga of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit-but whose story has gone untold until now"--