Aman­da J. Roth­schild is a nation­al secu­ri­ty expert and for­mer senior offi­cial at the White House, Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil, and State Depart­ment. She is the author of the first children’s book on the Ritchie Boys, My Zayde is a Super­hero: The True Sto­ry of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Boy Who Sur­vived and Fought Back.