Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?

In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II: In 1944, a team of young women and men who had escaped the Holocaust made the inconceivable choice to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe under the cover of a British military operation. Yet by the end of the mission, not a single Nazi was harmed and not a single ...