Some things are meant to be — there are these golden threads that connect me to so many of the authors that have been guests on Joy on Paper. With Steven Hartov there are many golden threads–we were both influenced at a young age by Leon Uris, we both love Sicily, and war stories are in our blood.  So it was a great pleasure to talk to him about The Last of the Seven, a World War II story about a little-known group of heroes who changed the course of history. Known as Troop X, they have been largely forgotten–but with his deep dive into the history of this group of European Jews who joined the British Army to infiltrate behind enemy lines, Steven Hartov has brought their story to life. 

 I think you will enjoy this interview as much as I did…

More about the book:

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop—a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler’s military.

A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British military camp in the North African desert with an incredible story to tell. He is the only survivor of an undercover operation meant to infiltrate a Nazi base, trading on the soldiers’ perfect fluency in German. However, this man is not British-born but instead a German Jew seeking revenge for the deaths of his family back home in Berlin.