Rachel S. Cox is the author of Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army, published in 2012 by NAL Caliber. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, World War II, CQ Researcher, and other national magazines. She holds a BA cum laude in English from Harvard, where she wrote her thesis on Thomas Hardy. For more information, including videotaped talks on Into Dust and Fire, visit www.rachelscox.com.