"This is a moving and significant story about endurance under the most trying conditions, from eluding enemy pursuers to surviving beatings, lack of proper food, and more. Lewis indelibly captures the hellish circumstances these men and women endured while also illustrating how resilience, coupled with acts of genuine human kindness, saw them through."

– Booklist

“The Nazi Ghost Train focuses on unheralded British and American flyers, many of whom were young recruits who—unexpectedly, and to their horror—were forced to abandon their planes and parachute into Belgium. The tale of ‘the ghost train’ is riveting. This overlooked, dramatic story deserves telling.”

– The Jewish Book Council 

“Lewis offers a by turns hair-raising and humane saga of resistance against the Third Reich in its waning hours. WWII history buffs will relish this.”

– Publishers Weekly

"Lewis has turned up a little-known but dramatic story of opposition to Nazi occupation. He recounts the anecdotes of fliers, Belgian resisters, and their Nazi opponents. He emphasizes that Nazi occupation forces were efficient. Most unsettling, Lewis turns up a Belgian career criminal who offered his services to the Nazis, formed his own rescue organization that employed many genuine Belgian resisters, and sent a steady stream of fliers and patriots directly into captivity. An expert account of heroic Belgian resistance."

– Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Greg Lewis’s Defying Hitler:

“Stirring.”

– USA Today

“Fascinating.”

– New York Post

“A deeply researched work that passionately challenges the popular myth that 'the German people followed Hitler as if as one mass, mesmerized like the children of Hamelin by the Pied Piper."

– Kirkus Reviews

"In Defying Hitler, Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis show in chilling and vivid detail just how courageous were those who dared to defy Hitler. A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils.”

– Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The First Wave

“Gripping. Manages to keep you guessing what some of the outcomes might be, despite our overall knowledge of Germany’s ultimate fate. [Defying Hitler] reminds us all that good people can dare to stand and fight evil and powerful regimes regardless of the odds.”

– Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“This important book offers alternative profiles in courage—portraits of the ordinary men and women who resisted Hitler, aided Jews and spied for the Allies during the dark days of World War II."

– Newsday

“[A] well-researched volume that drills into the darkness to examine the lives of those within the Third Reich who actively defied Hitler’s orders from 1933 to 1945. Highly recommended. This masterful work will best serve general audiences and historians alike.”

– Library Journal (starred review)

“This carefully researched book challenges the myth that the German people were virtually unanimous in support of Hitler. Defying Hitler is filled with almost unbearable suspense and drama.”

– Booklist (starred review)

“An engrossing and accessible history of Germans who risked, and mostly lost, their lives opposing the Nazi regime. An informative counterpoint to accounts of widespread German complicity with the Holocaust.”

– Publishers Weekly