The Brigade: and Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WW II
| Author | Howard Blum |
| Publication information | Harper Perennial, 2002, 352 pages |
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The British government agreed to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army.
When the war ended, and the soldiers witnessed firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launched a calculated campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding.
As vengeance threatened to overwhelm them, an encounter with an orphaned girl set the men on a course of action: rescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them to Palestine, that helped create a nation.