RETURN TO THE REICHA Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the NazisBy Eric LichtblauHow many fearless, foolhardy heroes did World War II produce? The answer, judging from the number of nonfiction titles about them, is … a lot. It qualifies as its own genre: Warriors of the Greatest Generation Who Make the Rest of Us Look Like Weenies. So with a title like “Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis,” you can see where things are headed. But Mayer also parachuted into Nazi-occupied Austria, impersonated a Wehrmacht officer, tracked enemy troop movements and helped Allied bombers target Nazi supply trains.

Source: New York Times October 17, 2019 20:26 UTC