LEADER 04013cam a2200529Ii 4500001 259338 005 20240621231414.0 008 161018t20172017nyuac b 001 0deng d 019 981052839988299799 020 9780062419095 |q(hardcover) 020 0062419099 |q(hardcover) 020 |z9780062803849 |q(international trade paperback edition) 035 (OCoLC)ocn960709002 035 259338 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dOCLCQ |dTOH |dUPZ |dCLE |dWIM |dTXDRI |dIGA |dBTCTA |dBDX |dJOY |dT3D |dUAB |dOCLCF |dMOF |dNDS |dVP@ |dLHM 050 4 D810.J4 |bH4235 2017 100 1 Henderson, Bruce, |d1946- |eauthor. 245 10 Sons and soldiers : |bthe untold story of the Jews who escaped the Nazis and returned with the U.S. Army to fight Hitler / |cBruce Henderson. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, NY : |bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, |c[2017] 264 4 |c©2017 300 xii, 429 pages : |billustrations, portraits ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 Includes photographic images on end papers. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-391 ; 411-418) and index. 505 0 Prologue: Germany 1938 -- Saving the children -- Escaping the Nazis -- A place to call home -- Camp Ritchie -- Going back -- Normandy -- The breakout -- Holland -- The forests -- Return to Deutschland -- The camps -- Denazification -- Going home. 520 As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 of these German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery of the German language, history, and customs. Known as the Ritchie Boys after the Maryland camp where they were trained, they were sent in small, elite teams to join every major combat unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and gathered crucial intelligence that saved American lives and helped win the war. Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured, the Ritchie Boys eagerly joined the fight to defeat Hitler. As they did, many of them did not know the fates of their own families left behind in occupied Europe. Taking part in every major campaign in Europe, they collected key tactical intelligence on enemy strength, troop and armored movements, and defensive positions. A postwar Army report found that more than sixty percent of the credible intelligence gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Boys. Bruce Henderson draws on personal interviews with many surviving veterans and extensive archival research to bring this chapter of the Second World War to light. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xMilitary intelligence |zUnited States. 650 0 Jewish soldiers |zUnited States. 650 0 Jews, German |zUnited States. 650 4 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. 650 4 World War, 1939-1945 |xMilitary intelligence |zUnited States. 650 7 Jews, German. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983458 650 7 Military intelligence. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01021270 650 7 Military participation |xJewish. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01353735 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 852 0 |bstacks |hD810.J4 |iH4235 2017 852 0 |bscstacks |hD810.J4 |iH4235 2017 |tc. 2