Featured books pool

Administrators only — this page is edit-protected for the sysop group. It drives the rotating book on the Main Page.

This list is the featured books pool. Every calendar week the Main Page shows the next book from this list (wrapping when it reaches the end), on the same weekly schedule as Featured Ritchie Boys. You do not edit the Main Page to rotate them.

How to edit (keep it simple)

• Add a book: put a new bullet under #Pool.
• Remove a title: delete that bullet.
• Reorder to change when it appears in the cycle: move bullets up or down.
• One book per line. Keep synopses short (2–4 sentences).

Line format (five pipe-separated fields):

* Title | Author | CoverFilename.jpg | https://buy-or-info-url | Brief synopsis without pipe characters if possible.

1. Title — display title of the book
2. Author — as shown on the cover
3. Cover — filename already uploaded to the wiki (same files as Books)
4. URL — usually the Amazon (or publisher) link used on Books
5. Synopsis — short plain-language blurb for the Main Page

After you save, purge Main Page once if the old book still shows (often unnecessary; wait a minute or hard-refresh).

Pool

• The Quiet Contingent: An Addendum on WWII — The Boys of Camp Ritchie | J. B. Cartwright | Quiet Contingent Cartwright.png | https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Contingent-Addendum-WWII-Ritchie/dp/B0D2CYL82M/ | Cartwright compiled more than 400 biographies of Camp Ritchie trainees from first-hand sources, interviews, and obituaries. The volume ranges from well-known Ritchie Boys such as Guy Stern, Paul Fairbrook, Hans Tuch, and Werner Angress to many less-known men whose postwar lives spanned law, politics, the arts, and intelligence work.
• 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 | Book_cover_0062419102.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Soldiers-Untold-Escaped-Returned/dp/0062419102 | Henderson follows German-Jewish refugees who fled Nazism, trained at Camp Ritchie, and returned to Europe as U.S. Army interrogators and intelligence soldiers. The narrative weaves individual lives into the larger story of how language skills and personal stakes shaped the Ritchie Boys’ wartime role.
• Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II | Beverley Driver Eddy | Book_cover_0811769968.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Ritchie-Boy-Secrets-Immigrants-Refugees/dp/0811769968/ | Eddy’s history of Camp Ritchie explains how the Army built a secret intelligence school and filled it with immigrants, refugees, and other linguists. It covers training, field assignments, and the lasting impact of the Ritchie Boys on the war in Europe.
• Invisible Ink: A Memoir | Guy Stern | Book_cover_0814347592.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ink-Guy-Stern/dp/0814347592/ | Guy Stern’s memoir traces his escape from Nazi Germany, Camp Ritchie training, and front-line interrogation work. He also reflects on a long postwar career as a scholar and public advocate for remembering the Ritchie Boys.
• Witness to the Storm: A Jewish Journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920–1945 | Werner T. Angress | Book_cover_0253039134.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Witness-Storm-Journey-Airborne-1920-1945/dp/0253039134/ | Angress recounts leaving Berlin, wartime service with the 82nd Airborne, and the intelligence work that followed Camp Ritchie. The memoir is both a personal survival story and a firsthand view of refugee soldiers in the U.S. Army.
• Immigrant Soldier: The Story of a Ritchie Boy | Kathryn Lang-Slattery | Book_cover_0990674231.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Immigrant-Soldier-Story-Ritchie-Boy/dp/0990674231/ | A novel grounded in family history about a young German Jewish immigrant who trains at Camp Ritchie and returns to Europe as an American soldier. It brings the immigrant-soldier path into readable fiction for a general audience.
• Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador’s Story | John E. Dolibois | Book_cover_0873383893.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Circles-Ambassadors-John-Dolibois/dp/0873383893 | Dolibois’s memoir moves from Luxembourg immigrant roots and Camp Ritchie service to postwar diplomacy, including his work with high-ranking German prisoners and later service as U.S. ambassador. It connects intelligence training to a long public career.
• Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation That Helped Win World War II | Robert K. Sutton | Book_cover_1636243770.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Potomac-Top-Secret-Intelligence-Operation/dp/1636243770 | Sutton examines the secret intelligence effort centered on Camp Ritchie and related sites near Washington. The book places the Ritchie Boys within the Army’s broader wartime intelligence system.
• Camp Sharpe’s “Psycho Boys”: From Gettysburg to Germany | Beverley Driver Eddy | Book_cover_0811773620.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Boys-Refugees-Artists-Professors/dp/0811773620/ | Eddy follows the Camp Sharpe “Psycho Boys” — many of them Ritchie-trained refugees, artists, and professors — into psychological warfare and combat propaganda. It is a companion history to her Camp Ritchie work, focused on the Gettysburg-area school and its overseas missions.
• Flight and Return: A Memoir of World War II | Maximilian Lerner | Book_cover_1493786555.jpg | https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Return-Memoir-World-War/dp/1493786555/ | Lerner’s memoir covers escape from Europe, Camp Ritchie training, and intelligence service with the U.S. Army. It is a firsthand account of a refugee who returned to fight the regime he fled.

See also

• Main Page — where the featured book appears
• Books — full book list
• Featured pool — weekly soldier portraits (same rotation schedule)
• Template:Featured books — technical wrapper
• Patrol — admin habits