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World War Ii In Secret

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Explore the mysteries and secrets of World War II from both sides! World War II in Secret profiles the many undisclosed and secretive stories of World War II, complete with copious illustrations and photographs drawn from the archives of all the major Allied and Axis powers. Espionage, radio, radar, and codes technology, resistance movements and saboteurs, weapons programs, camouflage and suberterfuge, and covert operations are all explored and uncovered to their smallest detail.Many techniques and technologies were either created or perfected during World War II. Many, such as the German use of blitzkrieg, radar, a human torpedo, the Enigma code, Barnes Wallis' bouncing bombs, soldiers on steroids, armies on amphetamines, America's Nisei, Project Z, Operation Bagration, the Double Cross, ghost armies, V weapons, the Wunderwaffen, and the Manhattan Project changed the course of world history forever. Award-winning military history author Gavin Mortimer explains them all, along with a few that didn't work at all, such as the Great Panjandrum and the Giant Dart.

Product Overview
ISBN 9780760347645
Categories History, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities
Author(s) Mortimer, Gavin
Publisher Zenith Press
Pages 208
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 25.6cm x 2.1cm x 22.8cm
Weight 1.02 kg