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Joining the rates of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and The Kids in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed the Ritchie Kids, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, arrived of age in the us, and delivered to Europe at gigantic personal risk as people of the US Army to experience a key role in the Allied victory. In 1942 the US Military unleashed one of its best top secret weapons in the struggle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training practically 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and using mastery of the German vocabulary, history, and traditions. Known as the Ritchie Kids, they were sent in small, elite clubs to become listed on every major fight unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and compiled crucial cleverness that saved American lives and helped gain the war. Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if indeed they were captured, the Ritchie Kids eagerly signed up with the struggle to defeat Hitler. Because 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 accumulated key tactical cleverness on enemy power, troop and armored motions, and defensive positions. A postwar army report discovered that more than 60 percent of the credible cleverness gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Kids. Bruce Henderson draws on personal interviews numerous surviving veterans and considerable archival research to bring this never-before-told chapter of the next World War to light. Sons and Troops traces their reviews from child years and their escapes from Nazi Germany, through their feats and sacrifices during the war, with their desperate endeavors to find their absent family members in war-torn Europe. Sons and Troops is an epic storyline of heroism, courage, and patriotism that will not soon be overlooked.
