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Sons and Soldiers

the Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
Sep 23, 2017wyenotgo rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Reminiscent of "The Women who Wrote the War", to the extent that it's highly journalistic in style and content. Henderson traces the early lives a half dozen Jewish boys and young men (i.e. their escape from Nazi-controlled Europe) and follows their transition into U.S. soldiers and their return to play a vital part in defeating the Hitler regime. The most remarkable aspect of their story is surely the sheer courage it took for them to return to the field of battle, knowing that were they to be captured, they would almost certainly not be treated as ordinary POWs but rather would be killed, as indeed some of them were.