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Imprint: Chatto & Windus
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Published: 27/05/2021
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ISBN: 9781784743116
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 244mm x 33mm x 162mm
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Weight: 580g
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RRP: £20.00
X Troop
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The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
'A thrilling, stirring story, well told' Daily Telegraph
'Gripping... Garrett's chief strength is her ability to relight the lamps of the past so that they glow anew' The Times
'Extraordinary' Jewish Chronicle
THE THRILLING TRUE STORY OF THE SECRET JEWISH COMMANDOS WHO HELPED DEFEAT THE NAZIS DURING WW2
June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the entire European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who escaped to Britain just before the War. Many have lost their families, their homes - their whole worlds. And now, in the crucial final battles against the Nazis, they will stop at nothing to defeat them. Trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat, this top secret unit becomes known as X Troop. Some simply call them a suicide squad.
Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews with the last surviving members, Leah Garrett follows this unique band of brothers from Europe to England and back again, with stops at British internment camps, the beaches of Normandy, the battlefields of Italy and Holland, and the hellscape of Terezin concentration camp - the scene of one of the most dramatic, untold rescues of the war. For the first time, X Troop tells the astonishing story of these secret shock troops and their devastating blows against the Nazis.
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Imprint: Chatto & Windus
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Published: 27/05/2021
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ISBN: 9781784743116
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 244mm x 33mm x 162mm
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Weight: 580g
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RRP: £20.00
Reviews
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X Troop is brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history
Alex Kershaw, author of The First Wave
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Gripping... Garrett's chief strength is her ability to relight the lamps of the past so that they glow anew
The Times
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This is Inglourious Basterds but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine
Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed
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This dramatic, previously untold story of extraordinary covert valour and victory takes readers all across the European front... A rousing and redefining portrait of an, until now, overlooked group of dedicated warriors
Booklist
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A compelling read... Garrett's evocation of the tension and drama of the many clandestine operations in Europe undertaken by X-Troopers is gripping
Sydney Morning Herald
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Gripping... Garrett's chief strength is her ability to relight the lamps of the past so that they glow anew
James Owen, The Times
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Leah Garrett's X Troop is brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees-a top-secret band of brothers-who waged war on Hitler
Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The Longest Winter, The Bedford Boys, and The Liberator
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This is Inglorious Basterds-but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine
Norman Ohler, New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed and The Bohemians
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A compelling read . . . Garrett's evocation of the tension and drama of the many clandestine operations in Europe undertaken by X-Troopers is gripping
Sydney Morning Herald
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Part history and part mystery, X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II tells a compelling and little known story about an improbable group of "British" soldiers who made an important contribution to the war effort. Their transformation from interned "enemy aliens" to soldiers with high security clearances is fascinating
Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Antisemitism Here and Now
