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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 / Bruce Henderson.
Drawing on original interviews and extensive archival research, this book vividly re-creates the stories of six of the Ritchie Boys - their escapes from Nazi Germany, their recruitment into the US Army, their feats and sacrifices during the war, and their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062419095
- ISBN: 0062419099
- Physical Description: xii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes photographic images on end papers. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-418) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Dramatis Personae | 375 | (8) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 383 | (12) | |||
| Sources | 395 | ||||
| Appendix: The Ritchie Boys | 393 | (18) | |||
| Bibliography | 411 | (8) | |||
| Index | 419 |
