Hey everyone, Ray here. I've got a book recommendation for you. No, this is not a book interview.

We're done with those for a while now. Quite frankly, I'm all interviewed out. Nope, it's back to the main storyline.

Anyway, so about this latest book, The Watchmakers. Almost three decades ago, Harry Lenga sat down with his son

and told him of the long years he and his two brothers had spent in one concentration camp after the

war together during World War II. They endured the horrors of Auschwitz and survived. How did they do it?

The three brothers had vowed never to be parted in life or in death. But they also had a skill that bound them together.

The art, science and craft of watchmaking. The Lenga family's journey from Poland to the German death camps to their liberation in 1945 is told in a new book.

The Watchmakers. A moving and extraordinary epic of resilience, endurance and faith in the face of inhumanity.

And the unique, horological skills that kept the three brothers together and alive during the darkest times of World War II.

An important addition to Holocaust literature. The Watchmakers from Kensington Publishing is available everywhere books are sold.

For more about The Watchmakers, visit scottlinga.com.

Hello. And thank you for listening to The History of World War II podcast.

Episode 372. Malta. Loses. A Hero. Last time, having gotten up to March of 1942, the defenders of Malta were at a low point.

Yet they wondered how could they not? Could it get any worse? They were about to get an answer.

Their latest convoy delivery had been a disaster. The island's airfields were being bombed daily.

Hell, one bomb that landed near a pilot's residence at Takali actually lifted him up into the air 20 feet

and it placed him on the second floor of his building. He was unhurt but wasted no time in thinking his guardian angel.

Either way, Malta was being pounded and General Kesselring was not going to stop until the island was his.

The second battle of Serta, which resulted in little additional supplies reaching Malta,

occurring on March 22nd, was covered last time. But it may be remembered that the allied air response

could have been more. Here's why, it wasn't.

Two days previous, March 20th, was payday. Normally something to be excited about.

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