{"product_id":"little-known-and-forgotten-stories-alan-best-9798996560523","title":"Little Known and Forgotten Stories From World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome of history's most remarkable stories have never been told. Others have simply been forgotten.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second World War produced more acts of courage, ingenuity, sacrifice, and sheer human stubbornness than any conflict in history. The famous battles are well known. The famous generals have their biographies. But history moves fast, and the stories that don't make the textbooks - the ones that happened in the margins, in the dark, in the ruins of cities and the corridors of governments - those are the ones that disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about those stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find the Polish mathematician who volunteered to be arrested and sent to Auschwitz. The Spanish chicken farmer who invented a fictional spy network and single-handedly kept Hitler's Panzer reserves at Calais for six weeks after D-Day. The Finnish farmer who lay motionless in snow for hours at a time and became the most lethal sniper in recorded history. The American messman who had never fired a weapon and manned a machine gun under fire when his ship was burning around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll find the crossword puzzle that nearly exposed the D-Day invasion. The schoolteacher interrogated by MI5. The diplomat who invented a country to save 50,000 lives. The eighteen-year-old Marine who walked into the dark alone and talked 1,500 enemy soldiers into surrendering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the stories history almost forgot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Known and Forgotten Stories from World War II\u003c\/em\u003e collects more than one hundred of them - each one complete, each one true, each one a reminder that the war was not won by generals and governments alone. It was won by people making decisions in the worst possible circumstances, doing things that had no precedent, for reasons that were sometimes heroic and sometimes simply human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey deserve to be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Best\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996560523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Best Story Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Alan Best","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997913297151,"sku":"9798996560523","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/little-known-and-forgotten-stories-alan-best-9798996560523","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}