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Daring Missions Of World War Ii

by: Breuer, William B.

Daring Missions Of World War Ii

by: Breuer, William B.

ISBN 13:
9780785819509
ISBN 10:
0785819509
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 02/28/2005
Publisher: Book Sales

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Summary

Few World War II stories are more gripping than those fought behind enemy lines by spies, underground members and special forces. In this collection, the author brings to light largely unknown stories of behind the scenes bravery and covert activities that helped the Allies win critical victories both on the ground and in the air.

Introduction

(4)

Part One Darkness Falls over Europe

Post Office Shoot-Out Launches a War

(2)

Wiping Out Hitler's Spy Network

(2)

The Gestapo Cracks an Espionage Ring

(1)

Masquerading Germans Pace the Invasion

(3)

A Streetcar Spearheads an Attack

(1)

Hitler Order: Kidnap Queen Wilhelmina

(1)

A Legal Diamond Thief

(1)

Rommel Personally Captures a Unit

(1)

A General's "Impossible" Escape

(3)

"The Cat" Was a Triple Agent

(2)

Prowling behind German-Held Coast

(2)

Cat-and-Mouse Game

(3)

A Personal Telegram for the Führer

(1)

Who Was the Mysterious Max?

(1)

Underwater War at Gibraltar

(4)

Polish Spies Invade Germany

(3)

A Leg is Parachuted to a British Ace

(2)

Sudden Death for the "Blond Beast"

(3)

Parachuting in a Boat

(4)

Part Two Freedom's Time of Crisis

A Ruse to Spy on Cherbourg

(1)

"Hunting" Germans in Canoes

(1)

Jewish Raiders in Disguise

(4)

A Conspiracy to Capture Cairo

(1)

Intruders at a Secret Airport

(4)

A Special Medal for Burma Tribesmen

(3)

American Medics Save Ho Chi Minh

(1)

A Hoax at Soviet Oil Fields

(2)

A Woman Heads an Escape Apparatus

(4)

The Ranger Wore Bedroom Slippers

(1)

The Countess and the Commandos

(5)

"Blow Up Rommel's Railroad!"

(5)

Reconnoitering Hostile Beaches

(2)

A Master of Disguises

(1)

Deceiving an Italian General

(1)

The Canal Saboteurs

(1)

Strange Places for Secret Radios

(1)

Saved from a Firing Squad

(5)

Part Three Hitler's Empire under Siege

Old Popski Invades a German Headquarters

(3)

The GI with the Too-Short Pants

(4)

The New York Subway Connection

(2)

Nose-Thumbing at the Germans

(1)

The Chef Had Bombs on His Menu

(1)

Spying from a Church Steeple

(1)

The Black-Hearted Devils

(4)

A Scheme to Go under German Lines

103

(1)

A New Baby Stymies Normandy Planning

103

(2)

Sabotage Campaign by Railway Men

105

(1)

A Close Encounter with Two Jungle Beasts

106

(3)

"Baby Sergeant York"

109

(1)

A Millionairess Resistance Leader

109

(2)

A Woman OSS Agent and "Cuthbert"

111

(1)

Panzer Watchers and Phony Laundries

112

(2)

The Supersecret X Troop

114

(1)

Miracle at a Normandy Convent

115

(1)

A Luftwaffe Pilot Declines to Take Bait

115

(1)

Jealousy Thwarts a German Scheme

116

(1)

A British POW Saves His Captor's Life

117

(4)

Part Four Beginning of the End

"Hell, We're Halfway to Berlin!"

121

(2)

Alone in a German-Held Town

123

(2)

Two Admirals Go Souvenir Hunting

125

(3)

An American General's Strange Odyssey

128

(3)

Mission: Kidnap Field Marshal Rommel

131

(2)

A Soviet Spying Mission Fizzles

133

(1)

A "Dead" GI Returns

134

(3)

Operation Sauerkraut

137

(2)

A POW Haul in a Saloon

139

(1)

"The Madman of St. Malo"

140

(2)

The "Terrorist" Was a Lady

142

(1)

Jeds behind the French Riviera

143

(3)

The Mysterious Lady in Red

146

(3)

An Escape by Eight "Policemen"

149

(3)

An Endangered Pilot Is Saved

152

(3)

Shooting Up an "Iron Kraut"

155

(1)

Hiding a "Pregnant" Glider Pilot

156

(2)

The "Lone Raider" on the Prowl

158

(4)

A Secret Mission in the Alps

162

(5)

Part Five Peace at Last

"League of Lonely War Women"

167

(1)

Curious Doings in a POW Camp

167

(2)

POWs Parachute into the Reich

169

(2)

The Good Samaritan of Leyte Gulf

171

(1)

"Scarface Otto" Creates Mass Hysteria

172

(4)

A POW Colonel Takes Command

176

(3)

An Allied Spy's Dilemma

179

(1)

Marooned amid the Foe

180

(3)

Trapped in an Attic for Eight Days

183

(4)

Love and War at a German Post Office

187

(1)

MacArthur "Visits" a Japanese CP

188

(2)

A Patrol's "Pigeon Air Force"

190

(4)

A German Boy-Soldier Saves Two GIs

194

(3)

A Scheme to Trigger an Uprising

197

(1)

Uninvited "Guests" on Corregidor

198

(2)

Eavesdropping behind Japanese Positions

200

(1)

Eisenhower's Spy in Berlin

201

(3)

Father Sam and His Hidden Radio

204

(2)

Intelligence Coup on a Train

206

(2)

Nazi Frogmen on the Rhine

208

(2)

VIP Hostages Saved by Fate

210

(1)

A Stroll through 145,000 Germans

211

(3)

Mobilizing Twenty-Eight Million Civilian Killers

214

(5)

Notes and Sources

219

(12)

Index

231

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