BOOK REVIEW: 'Islam and Nazi German's War'

ISLAM AND NAZI GERMANY'S WAR By David Motadel Belknap Press, $35, 512 pages Wartime alliances are rarely rational. Battlefield allies usually share little but a common enemy. The close relationship between Hitler's top generals and policy planners and the devout Muslim soldiers who fought in Nazi Germany's army was strange and unnatural. The two groups shared…