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X Troop
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  • Published: 27 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473570139
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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X Troop

The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

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27 May 2021
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27 May 2021
Paperback
31 May 2022
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This is popular WW2 history at its heart-stopping best, fuelled by an incredible, previously untold story of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit

THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNIT

June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan - a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees. This top secret unit becomes known as X Troop. Others simply call them a suicide squad.

From British internment camps, to the beaches of Normandy, the battlefields of Italy and Holland, and the hellscape of Terezin concentration camp, Leah Garrett follows this band of brothers who will stop at nothing to defeat the Nazis.


'A thrilling, stirring story' Daily Telegraph
'Gripping... Garrett's chief strength is her ability to relight the lamps of the past so that they glow anew' The Times
  • Published: 27 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473570139
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:

About the author

Leah Garrett

Leah Garrett, who directs the Jewish Studies Program at Hunter College and is an Honorary Professor of History at Warwick University, has discovered a trove of materials, including diaries, letters, and pieces of memoirs crafted by X Troopers. She has also interviewed a number of their family members. Most of the men kept the English names they were given as cover, and lived out their lives in the UK after the war.

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