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Author:   William B. Breuer
Publisher:   Turner Publishing Company
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.554kg
ISBN:  

9780471353829

ISBN 10:   0471353825
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 February 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. PART ONE: HEADING TOWARD THE ABYSS. Sinister Plots in the New Germany. Burglars Call on a Japanese Spymaster. Ten Moles in Hitler's High Command. A Scheme to Declare Hitler Insane. The Blond Beast's Ruse Backfires. Did His Generals Sabotage the Fuhrer? Her Serene Highness Plots with Goering. A Bizarre Kidnapping Scheme. The French Consul's Janitor. A German General Spies on Himself. A Baseball Player's Foresight. Tailing a Soviet Spy in England. PART TWO: THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN EUROPE. A Weird Hoax to Launch a War. Most Secret: Defuse the Magnetic Mines. Mystery Explosion in a Nazi Shrine. Goering Hires a Rainmaker. Churchill's Amazing Gamble. A Covert Weather War. Masquerade on the High Seas. Nazi Spies in the U.S. Capitol. Two Tiny Tots Escape to England. The World's Dumbest Spy. Global Celebrity a Secret Agent. A POW's Wife Unlocks a Code. Canada's Covert Luxury Fleet. One Airplane Infuriates the Fuhrer. PART THREE: THRUSTS AND COUNTERTHRUSTS. A Cunning Forgery Pays Off. Shopping for U.S. Secrets. A Scientist on a Covert Mission. Black Propaganda Warriors. A Trojan Horse Hoax. The Bulldog Bites the German Navy. Keeno, King of the Robots. A German POW Makes History. A Kamikaze Plan Against Pearl Harbor. Hijacking Mussolini's Money. Hitler's Doom Seen in the Stars. Abwehr Dupe: Vice President Wallace. The Nazis' Most Unlikely Secret Agent. PART FOUR: CONFLICT SPREADS AROUND THE WORLD. A Batty Idea for Firebombing Tokyo. The FBI Nabs a Honolulu Sleeper. A French Counterfeit Traitor. Their Weapons Were Words. Peculiar Demise of a Captured Plane. A Bishop in Disguise. The Mysterious Inspector Thompson. A Nazi Counterfeiting Plot. A Chance Meeting in a Cafe. Hitler's Evil Guardian Angel. Roosevelt's Guest a Nazi Spy. Ruse in a Berlin Brothel. A Spy Spies on the Spymaster. PART FIVE: THE TIDE TURNS. A Female Resistant Tricks the Gestapo. An Owner Blows Up His Factory. A Plan to Bomb the United States. The Princes and Seven Thousand Danish Jews. Eisenhower's Secret Weapon. A Call for Nazi Suicide Pilots. A Plot to Murder Two Allied Generals. Hitler Warned by a Female Spy. An Alarming Breach of Security. The Wizard and the Mushroom Man. Warning: Your Submarine May Explode. A Puzzling Episode in Normandy. A Poison Treatment for Hitler. Belgian Resistants Steal a Locomotive. A German General Cuts a Strange Deal. PART SIX: ALLIED MARCH TO VICTORY. The Armee Secrete Saves Antwerp. Machinations at a Dutch Hotel. Gift-Wrapping a Kidnap Victim. An Ingenious German Deception Plan. Spies Swarm into the Third Reich. Blasting Doomed Resistants to Freedom. The Plot to Surrender a Nazi Army. A Covert Plan to Seize Berlin. Urgent: Pilfer One Hundred Huge Missiles. Notes and Sources. Index.

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WILLIAM B. BREUER is a military historian and author of more than 25 books, 10 of which have been main selections of the Military Book Club. They include Undercover Tales of World War II, Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, The Great Raid on Cabanatuan, Feuding Allies, and MacArthur's Undercover War (all from Wiley).

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