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Bizarre Tales from World War II

by: Breuer, William B.

Bizarre Tales from World War II

by: Breuer, William B.

ISBN 13:
9780785819929
ISBN 10:
0785819924
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 02/28/2005
Publisher: Book Sales

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Summary

Ernest Hemingway stalks U-Boats. A Belgian woman halts the Panzers. Adolf Hitler plays Santa Claus. If you think these are tall tales, guess again. More than 140 of the most bizarre, curious, and downright strange incidents from World War II are documented here based on personal interviews, archives and declassified documents.

Introduction

(4)

Part One A Rocky Road to War

Amazing Encounter at Pier 86

(2)

A British "Mystery Plane" Vanishes

(1)

A One-Man Espionage Apparatus

(1)

Recruiting Crossword Puzzle Geniuses

(3)

New York's IRA Hoodwinks Spymaster

(2)

Stalking a Soviet Defector

(2)

Two Spies Roam British Ports

(1)

Stealing Secrets by Mail

(1)

"Simple Simon" Trips Himself Up

(1)

A Taxi Ignores Theory

(1)

The IRA Bilks the Abwehr

(1)

Clash of Two Top Nazis

(3)

Hitler's Pipeline into Washington

(1)

A Senator Helps a German Spy

(2)

A Peculiar River Crossing

(1)

Dame Fate Saves General Rommel

(1)

Going in Style to a POW Camp

(1)

Clanging Bells Rock Germany

(1)

Did Prime Minister's Mistress Influence Surrender?

(2)

Venus de Milo Fools Germans

(4)

Part Two The Allies' Hours of Crises

Mission: "Nazify" a Conquered Nation

(1)

Curfew for Dutch Dogs and Ducks

(1)

Wild Schemes for Saving England

(1)

Curious Duel in British Skies

(2)

A German Pilot's Unlikely Captor

(1)

The Royal Navy's Invisible Ship

(1)

Hitler's Plot to Murder Franco

(2)

A Cleaning Woman Foils Hitler

(3)

The Battle of the Birds

(2)

Roosevelt in a Shouting Match

(2)

Democracy in a Battlefield Hospital

(1)

Strange Means for Urgent Warning

(2)

A Dedicated Blood-Bank Volunteer

(1)

The Spymaster's Peculiar Scheme

(1)

A Pursuit of Bugs and Lice

(1)

A Cantankerous Torpedo

(1)

Curious Death of a German Bigwig

(2)

Ernest Hemingway Stalks U-Boats

(2)

Fluke Saves a British Fleet

(1)

The War's Craziest Wedding Scenario

(1)

Two WACs on a Secret Mission

(1)

Strange Place for Royal Jewels

(5)

Part Three The Tide Starts to Turn

Navajo Code-Talkers Ignite Panic

(1)

Adolf Hitler Plays Santa Claus

(2)

Purple Heart Stripped from Sailor

(1)

Saga of Top-Secret Maps

(2)

Eisenhower Aide Helps Trick Germans

(1)

The General's Pants Go AWOL

(3)

Mystery of the Vanishing Report

(1)

Hostile Horsemen Chase Airplane

(1)

A Dead Sergeant Walks Away

(2)

A Tank Commander's Close Call

(1)

Espionage in the Vatican

(1)

OSS Agent's Hidden Bribes

(1)

An Unlikely Spy Scores Coup

(3)

Eisenhower Disclosure Stuns Reporters

(1)

A Horrendous Bombing Error Pays Off

(1)

Freak Encounter in No-Man's-Land

(1)

A Mule-Borne Commander

(1)

The Captain Refused to Be Killed

(2)

Two GIs Beat Patton to Goal

(2)

"Prescriptions" for the Lady Spy

(1)

Huge Bonus for a Jungle Spy

(2)

"The Madame" Was a Secret Agent

(2)

A Movie Fan on Bougainville

101

(1)

A GI Carries His Eyeball

102

(5)

Part Four Beginning of the End

An Odd Place for Spying

107

(1)

Hitler's "Creatures" at Anzio

108

(1)

American Spymaster Shocks London

109

(2)

Exciting Races on a Beachhead

111

(1)

A Social Visit to the Enemy

112

(1)

The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed

112

(2)

Secret Agent Saved by a Blacksmith

114

(1)

A Bomb Explodes Too Late

115

(2)

An Ingenious Escape Artist

117

(1)

A Prophetic German Cook

117

(1)

Gods Smile on Teddy Roosevelt Jr.

118

(2)

"Don't Worry...I'll Shoot You First!"

120

(1)

An Enemy Saves "Father Sam"

121

(2)

Firefighters Center of Attention

123

(1)

The "Mess Sergeant" Was a Lady

124

(1)

Massacre in the Wrong Village

125

(1)

A General Turned Fire Chief

126

(1)

The Great Soap Bubble Scheme

126

(2)

A Triumph for Two OSS Men

128

(1)

Four Newsmen Bag a German Platoon

129

(1)

German Shoot-Out among Themselves

130

(2)

Ordeal for Missing Identical Twins

132

(1)

Parachute Pack Saves Trooper

133

(1)

Drone Boats Go Berserk

134

(1)

"Am I Having Hallucinations?"

135

(1)

A Doctor Captures a German Hospital

135

(2)

A Colonel's Unique "Uniform"

137

(4)

Part Five Allied Road to Victory

Banzai Charge in a POW Camp

141

(1)

A Nazi Zealot Obeys His Führer

141

(1)

Miracle Saves Woman Spy's Life

142

(2)

The War's Unexplained Mystery

144

(2)

Dutch Boys Capture Nine Germans

146

(1)

Luck Runs Out for the Blue Goose

147

(1)

"Baby Patrol" in No-Man's-Land

148

(1)

Providence Saves a Polish Spy

149

(1)

The Choirboys Plot to Doom Hitler

150

(1)

"Kidnapping" a Thirty-Ton Tank

151

(1)

A Hero "Resigns" from the Navy

152

(1)

A Jeep Bonanza for "Scarface Otto"

153

(2)

A Peculiar Reception Committee

155

(1)

Hitler Humbles His Generals

156

(2)

History Repeats for German Colonel

158

(2)

A Jinxed Town in Belgium

160

(1)

A Belgian Woman Halts the Panzers

161

(1)

Hex by a Lieutenant's Pal

162

(1)

A Fluke Halts Eisenhower Trip

163

(1)

A GI "Division" of Thieves

163

(1)

The Miracle of Wiltz

164

(1)

Unique Distinction for a Survivor

165

(1)

Digging Up a Revered German Hero

166

(1)

An Unlikely Battlefield Hero

167

(4)

Part Six A Shaky World Peace

Amazing Scenario in Manila

171

(2)

Death Stalks a Navy Pilot

173

(1)

Shoot-Out at a Boxcar

174

(2)

MacArthur Recaptures His Home

176

(1)

Offering Up a Bonfire of Money

177

(2)

A Tommy-Gunning Pilot

179

(1)

Gods Smile on German General

179

(1)

A Tail Gunner's Miraculous Survival

180

(2)

Curious Incident in a Command Post

182

(1)

Hoax to Seize a Rhine Bridge

182

(1)

Churchill "Consecrates" the Siegfried Line

183

(2)

An Airman Dodges Certain Death

185

(1)

Pilot's Prayer Gets Results

186

(1)

Glider Used as a Weapon

187

(1)

His Masseur Coerces Himmler

188

(2)

A Surrender-by-Telephone Tactic

190

(1)

Kidnapping Polish Underground Leaders

191

(1)

El Darbo's Charmed Life

192

(1)

Air Dogfight with Pistols

193

(1)

Comic Opera in the Bavarian Alps

194

(1)

Collaring a Nazi Bigwig

195

(2)

Peculiar "Capture" of an SS Colonel

197

(1)

Stalin's Son in Strange Mission

198

(2)

A Scheme to Blow Up Japan

200

(1)

Odd Interlude on a Train

200

(3)

A Soldier's Thirty-Year War

203

(2)

Notes and Sources

205

(10)

Index

215

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