Like an aging superhero-film franchise, World War II biographies have morphed from single-subject works into wine-and-brie superstar pairings. By last century’s end, historians such as William Manchester, Forrest Pogue, Carlo D’Este and Stephen Ambro...
Maurice Rose was a lean and handsome man, a warrior, and the son of a rabbi. He never seems to have mentioned his religion to his fellow soldiers, and his grave is marked by a Christian cross in the Dutch cemetery where he came to rest, the highest-r...