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Author(s): William B. Breuer
ISBN(s): 9780471302209, 0471302201
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.33 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0471302201 
ISBN 13: 9780471302209
Author: William B Breuer

Acclaimed military historian William Breuer takes readers on a trip through the looking glass to acquaint them with the weirder side of World War II. Featuring a cast of characters including double- and triple-agents, femme fatales, fearless leaders, and men at arms, The Spy who Spent the War In Bed is a collection of seventy concise, vividly rendered tales of war, ranging from laugh-out-loud funny, to inspiring, to just-plain-bizarre. For instance, there’s the one about how reputed Irish Republican Army members in New York conned Nazi intelligence out of a small fortune. There’s also a thrilling account of how four American newsmen bagged an entire German platoon. And there’s the haunting tale of the “”Mystery Plane,”” an experimental aircraft that took off on a short test flight over England one sunny afternoon in 1938 and simply vanished into a cloudless summer sky. This book draws on personal interviews, official archives, and declassified documents, as well as the vast literature on World War II.

The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed And Other Bizarre Tales from World War II 1st Table of contents:

Part One—A Rocky Road to War

  1. Amazing Encounter at Pier 86

  2. A British “Mystery Plane” Vanishes

  3. A One-Man Espionage Apparatus

  4. Recruiting Crossword Puzzle Geniuses

  5. New York’s IRA Hoodwinks Spymaster

  6. Stalking a Soviet Defector

  7. Two Spies Roam British Ports

  8. Stealing Secrets by Mail

  9. “Simple Simon” Trips Himself Up

  10. A Taxi Ignores Theory

  11. The IRA Bilks the Abwehr

  12. Clash of Two Top Nazis

  13. Hitler’s Pipeline into Washington

  14. A Senator Helps a German Spy

  15. A Peculiar River Crossing

  16. Dame Fate Saves General Rommel

  17. Going in Style to a POW Camp

  18. Clanging Bells Rock Germany

  19. Did Prime Minister’s Mistress Influence Surrender?

  20. Venus de Milo Fools Germans

Part Two—The Allies’ Hours of Crises

  1. Mission: “Nazify” a Conquered Nation

  2. Curfew for Dutch Dogs and Ducks

  3. Wild Schemes for Saving England

  4. Curious Duel in British Skies

  5. A German Pilot’s Unlikely Captor

  6. The Royal Navy’s Invisible Ship

  7. Hitler’s Plot to Murder Franco

  8. A Cleaning Woman Foils Hitler

  9. The Battle of the Birds

  10. Roosevelt in a Shouting Match

  11. Democracy in a Battlefield Hospital

  12. Strange Means for Urgent Warning

  13. A Dedicated Blood-Bank Volunteer

  14. The Spymaster’s Peculiar Scheme

  15. A Pursuit of Bugs and Lice

  16. A Cantankerous Torpedo

  17. Curious Death of a German Bigwig

  18. Ernest Hemingway Stalks U-Boats

  19. Fluke Saves a British Fleet

  20. The War’s Craziest Wedding Scenario

  21. Two WACs on a Secret Mission

  22. Strange Place for Royal Jewels

Part Three—The Tide Starts to Turn

  1. Navajo Code-Talkers Ignite Panic

  2. Adolf Hitler Plays Santa Claus

  3. Purple Heart Stripped from Sailor

  4. Saga of Top-Secret Maps

  5. Eisenhower Aide Helps Trick Germans

  6. The General’s Pants Go AWOL

  7. Mystery of the Vanishing Report

  8. Hostile Horsemen Chase Airplane

  9. A Dead Sergeant Walks Away

  10. A Tank Commander’s Close Call

  11. Espionage in the Vatican

  12. OSS Agent’s Hidden Bribes

  13. An Unlikely Spy Scores Coup

  14. Eisenhower Disclosure Stuns Reporters

  15. A Horrendous Bombing Error Pays Off

  16. Freak Encounter in No-Man’s-Land

  17. A Mule-Borne Commander

  18. The Captain Refused to Be Killed

  19. Two GIs Beat Patton to Goal

  20. “Prescriptions” for the Lady Spy

  21. Huge Bonus for a Jungle Spy

  22. “The Madame” Was a Secret Agent

  23. A Movie Fan on Bougainville

  24. A GI Carries His Eyeball

Part Four—Beginning of the End

  1. An Odd Place for Spying

  2. Hitler’s “Creatures” at Anzio

  3. American Spymaster Shocks London

  4. Exciting Races on a Beachhead

  5. A Social Visit to the Enemy

  6. The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed

  7. Secret Agent Saved by a Blacksmith

  8. A Bomb Explodes Too Late

  9. An Ingenious Escape Artist

  10. A Prophetic German Cook

  11. Gods Smile on Teddy Roosevelt Jr.

  12. “Don’t Worry . . . I’ll Shoot You First!”

  13. An Enemy Saves “Father Sam”

  14. Firefighters Center of Attention

  15. The “Mess Sergeant” Was a Lady

  16. Massacre in the Wrong Village

  17. A General Turned Fire Chief

  18. The Great Soap Bubble Scheme

  19. A Triumph for Two OSS Men

  20. Four Newsmen Bag a German Platoon

  21. German Shoot-Out among Themselves

  22. Ordeal for Missing Identical Twins

  23. Parachute Pack Saves Trooper

  24. Drone Boats Go Berserk

  25. “Am I Having Hallucinations?”

  26. A Doctor Captures a German Hospital

  27. A Colonel’s Unique “Uniform”

Part Five—Allied Road to Victory

  1. Banzai Charge in a POW Camp

  2. A Nazi Zealot Obeys His Führer

  3. Miracle Saves Woman Spy’s Life

  4. The War’s Unexplained Mystery

  5. Dutch Boys Capture Nine Germans

  6. Luck Runs Out for the Blue Goose

  7. “Baby Patrol” in No-Man’s-Land

  8. Providence Saves a Polish Spy

  9. The Choirboys Plot to Doom Hitler

  10. “Kidnapping” a Thirty-Ton Tank

  11. A Hero “Resigns” from the Navy

  12. A Jeep Bonanza for “Scarface Otto”

  13. A Peculiar Reception Committee

  14. Hitler Humbles His Generals

  15. History Repeats for German Colonel

  16. A Jinxed Town in Belgium

  17. A Belgian Woman Halts the Panzers

  18. Hex by a Lieutenant’s Pal

  19. A Fluke Halts Eisenhower Trip

  20. A GI “Division” of Thieves

  21. The Miracle of Wiltz

  22. Unique Distinction for a Survivor

  23. Digging Up a Revered German Hero

  24. An Unlikely Battlefield Hero

Part Six—A Shaky World Peace

  1. Amazing Scenario in Manila

  2. Death Stalks a Navy Pilot

  3. Shoot-Out at a Boxcar

  4. MacArthur Recaptures His Home

  5. Offering Up a Bonfire of Money

  6. A Tommy-Gunning Pilot

  7. Gods Smile on German General

  8. A Tail Gunner’s Miraculous Survival

  9. Curious Incident in a Command Post

  10. Hoax to Seize a Rhine Bridge

  11. Churchill “Consecrates” the Siegfried Line

  12. An Airman Dodges Certain Death

  13. Pilot’s Prayer Gets Results

  14. Glider Used as a Weapon

  15. His Masseur Coerces Himmler

  16. A Surrender-by-Telephone Tactic

  17. Kidnapping Polish Underground Leaders

  18. El Darbo’s Charmed Life

  19. Air Dogfight with Pistols

  20. Comic Opera in the Bavarian Alps

  21. Collaring a Nazi Bigwig

  22. Peculiar “Capture” of an SS Colonel

  23. Stalin’s Son in Strange Mission

  24. A Scheme to Blow Up Japan

  25. Odd Interlude on a Train

  26. A Soldier’s Thirty-Year War

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