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Leah Garrett

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History, Nonfiction, Religion

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Leah Garrett is an award-winning professor at Hunter College, CUNY. Her life and academic career have taken her around the world. She spent several years of her childhood in West Africa; she was a Fulbright Scholar in the middle east and travelled extensively throughout the region; she lived in Cambridge, England and studied at Oxford University, England. She won a place at the Art Institute of Chicago and then went back to Africa to work in a Lesotho orphanage for a year. She was a Research Professor at Monash University in Australia for ten years. In 2019 she returned to her birthplace of New York City.

Leah’s interest in World War Two began with her own family. Many of her relatives were veterans, creating a personal connection to the hi ...more

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	X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II 4.29 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cross and Other Jewish Stories (New Yiddish Library Series) by Lamed Shapiro, Leah Garrett (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flight Nurses’ War: The American Women Who Saved Thousands of Lives at Iwo Jima and Okinawa 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journeys beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Flight Nurses' War: The American Women Who Saved Thousands of Lives at Iwo Jima and Okinawa by Leah Garrett (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Jill Araya (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ursonate.”
― Leah Garrett, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II

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“(Miriam Rothschild’s cousin Ewen Montagu had helped run Operation Mincemeat, which in April 1943 used the staged death of a British officer—complete with false identification and intelligence documents—to convince the Germans that the Allies were planning to invade Greece.)”
― Leah Garrett, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II

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