Leah Garrett

I am a Chair and Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. My forthcoming book is The Flight Nurses' War: The American Women Who Saved Thousands of Lives at Iwo Jima and Okinawa (Basic Books US/Atlantic Books UK). My last book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, was featured on CNN, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, CSPAN and a range of other venues. The Daily Telegraph called it "A thrilling story, well-told" while the Times of London labelled it as "gripping" and The Jerusalem Report called it "stunning...an incredible moving story of Jewish heroism." X Troop was translated into Hebrew, Polish and Russian.

Young Lions: How Jewish Writers Reinvented the American War Novel - won the Jordan Schnitzer book award for American Jewish History and was shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award.

Journeys Beyond The Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing In The Modern World

The Cross And Other Jewish Stories By Lamed Shapiro

A Knight At The Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Pertz and the Legacy of Der Tannhauser