The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed: And Other Bizarre Tales from World War II (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781630262303)

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.

Author: William B. Breuer
ISBN-10: 1630262307
ISBN-13: 9781630262303
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d