Books

Books lists notable books by and about the Ritchie Boys.

There have been numerous books written by, and about, The Ritchie Boys. More stories and information about these heroes are being published every year.

Below are some notable books. There are other books that have been published. Each title links to Amazon where it is available for purchase.

Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II (Beverley Driver Eddy)

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)

Camp Ritchie und seine Österreicher (Florian Traussnig) — German

Die Psychokrieger von Camp Sharpe (Florian Traussnig) — German

Invisible Ink (Guy Stern) Guy Stern

Si Lewen’s Parade: An Artist’s Odyssey (Si Lewen) Si Lewen

Immigrant Soldier: The Story of a Ritchie Boy (Kathryn Lang-Slattery)

Someday You Will Understand: My Father’s Private World War II (Nina Wolff Feld)

Flight and Return: A Memoir of World War II (Maximilian Lerner) Maximilian Lerner

Always Present (Lillian Belinfante Herzberg)

Almost Home: The Story of Otto Gruenbaum, Pianist and Ritchie Boy (Irene Wittig) — Otto K. Gruenbaum Otto K. Gruenbaum

Witness to the Storm: A Jewish Journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920–1945 (Werner T. Angress) Werner T. Angress

That Was Then…: A War Diary (various / Ritchie Boy memoir)

Camp Sharpe’s “Psycho Boys”: From Gettysburg to Germany (Beverley Driver Eddy)

A Captain’s Soul (Suzanne Tomb)

A Tangled Web (Tommy Cauthen)

The Light Left Behind (historical fiction)

Ritchie Boy (Linda Kass) — novel

Max’s War: A Story of the Ritchie Boys and Revolution

Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation That Helped Win World War II (Robert K. Sutton)

The Few Who Made a Difference (intelligence / Ritchie-related)

Heart Songs of the Holocaust (Barbara Gilford)

The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (Lisa Moses Leff)

Revenge of the Ritchie Boys (escaping German / novel)

The Quiet Contingent: An Addendum on WWII — The Boys of Camp Ritchie (J. B. Cartwright)

With Rancor and Compassion: The Memoirs of a Jew Who Thought He Was a German (Martin I. Selling) Martin I. Selling

Greenhorn (Sandor Sigmond) Sandor Sigmond

The Way It Was: A World War II Memoir (Jim Hargrove) Jim Hargrove

Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador’s Story (John E. Dolibois) John E. Dolibois

Silent Missions (Vernon A. Walters) Vernon A. Walters

My Queer War (James Lord) James Lord

Looking Back at My First Eighty Years (Robert A. Potash) Robert A. Potash

A Life of Privilege, Mostly (Gardner Botsford) Gardner Botsford

Germans: The Biography of an Obsession (George Bailey) George Bailey

The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir (Leon Edel) Leon Edel

Victor’s War: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Victor Delnore (Victor E. Delnore) Victor E. Delnore

Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Lawrence Cane) Lawrence Cane

The Raid Toward Prague: May 1945 (Harry Jacobs) — novel Harry Jacobs

The Improbable Spy (Maximilian Lerner) — novel Maximilian Lerner

The Expendable Spy: A Tale of World War II (Maximilian Lerner) — novel Maximilian Lerner

The Unauthorized Autobiography of W.B.: The War Years (1933–1945) (Walter V. Bodlander) Walter V. Bodlander

Spy Catchers of the U.S. Army in the War With Japan (Duval A. Edwards) Duval A. Edwards

Memoirs (David Rockefeller) David Rockefeller

My Music & My Life (William Warfield) William Warfield

A Year Apart: Letters from War-Torn Europe (Murray Olderman) Murray Olderman

See also

• Documentaries/Movies
• Ritchie Boy Programs
• The Stories
• Symposium Presentation