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Unexplained mysteries of World War II
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9780739408469
9780785822530
9780783888590
9780471291077
9780471175599
9780785822530
9780783888590
9780471291077
9780471175599
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Table of Contents
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Part 1 Puzzling Events --
Dress Rehearsal for Pearl Harbor? 3 --
Shadowy German Scientist 7 --
Spy in the War Cabinet? 9 --
Phantom of Scapa Flow 12 --
Bewildered Allied Generals 14 --
Hitler Scuttles Operation Felix 18 --
Japanese Spies in Washington 20 --
Stalin: An Outwitted Bungler 21 --
Switzerland: Hitler's Next Conquest? 26 --
Suspicious Advertisement 28 --
Operation North Pole 31 --
Who Set Fire to the Normandie? 34 --
Convoy SL125: A Sacrificial Ploy? 37 --
Ultimatum: Slipup or Plot? 38 --
Political Tangle in the Balkans 41 --
Ambush in the Sky 42 --
Was the Normandy D-Day Necessary? 46 --
Evidence of a High-Level Cover-Up 48 --
Part 2 Odd Coincidences --
Reunited in an Operating Room 55 --
Blue-Blood Nazi Spy 57 --
Suspicious Arrow of Wheat 58 --
A Couple of Mixed-up Britons 58 --
A Postcard with a Unique View 59 --
Fifty Surgeons at the Right Place 59 --
A Timely Japanese Air-Raid Drill 60 --
New York Uranium Merchant 62 --
Spy Who Chose the Wrong House 63 --
Two Deadly Foes Meet Again 64 --
Look Out Below! 65 --
Two GIs on Salerno Beachhead 67 --
Long Shot in the Dark 68 --
Second Bill Purdy Wins Out 70 --
Pigeon Scores a News Scoop 70 --
Parachute in a Million 72 --
A Map Found in Normandy 73 --
MacArthurs Have a Houseguest 74 --
Sad Discovery in a Cemetery 75 --
Rommel and Montgomery 76 --
Lost Dog Tag 77 --
A "Dead" Soldier Reappears 78 --
Kamikaze Hits the Calloway 80 --
A Sister's Startling Discovery 81 --
Inseparable Twins 81 --
A Nazi Bigwig Slept Here 83 --
A German General's Homecoming 83 --
Nabbing a Nazi Nabob 85 --
Part 3 Curious Happenings --
United States Tunes In to Hider 89 --
An Anti-Nazi Paces Hitler's War 90 --
Dame Fate Foils a Kidnapping 91 --
Dead Spy Put to Work 92 --
A Cooperative German Commandant 93 --
A Pilot's On-the-Job Training 95 --
Ghost Pilot of Kienow 96 --
Make-Do Bombardier Scores Big 98 --
A Journalist Beats the Odds 99 --
Nazis Aid U.S. A-Bomb Creation 101 --
Piggyback Ride on a U-Boat 104 --
A Spy for Both Sides 106 --
A Lifesaving Candy Bar 108 --
A Bolt Out of the Blue 109 --
Lady Luck Saves a Sailor 110 --
A German Pilot Joins His Victims 111 --
Bombing Patriots Out of Prison 112 --
Sleeping His Way into Battle 113 --
Freakish Farewell to Arms 114 --
Belated Surrender on Guam 115 --
Fluke Wound in an Aid Station 116 --
A German Courier Gets Lost 117 --
An Old German in a Garden 118 --
Snoozing on Iwo Jima 119 --
A Sub Sinks Itself 120 --
An Urgent Signal Saves a Ship 122 --
Was There a Plot to Kidnap Hitler's Corpse? 123 --
Living Unknown Serviceman 126 --
Part 4 Uncanny Riddles --
Did Britain Try to Bribe Hitler? 131 --
Did the Allies Aid the Pearl Harbor Plan? 132 --
Was Frau Goebbels Defecting? 134 --
Could $212 Have Prevented a U.S. Disaster? 135 --
Reinhard Heydrich's Secret 137 --
A Crucial Page Disappears 138 --
A Nazi Report Vanishes 139 --
Luftwaffe Spares Doolittle 140 --
Weasel Goes on the Lam 141 --
Who Tried to Murder de Gaulle? 143 --
Strange Death of Joe Kennedy 145 --
A Shining Beacon in Normandy 147 --
Ghost Voice in the Ardennes 148 --
Who Concealed Soviet Butchery? 150 --
Part 5 People Who Vanished --
Polish Genius 155 --
Mysterious Countess 158 --
A Propagandist's Blunder 159 --
Lady Be Good 160 --
A General's Final Mission 162 --
Churchill's Kin Freddy 164 --
Into the "Devil's Triangle" 166 --
Search for a German General 168 --
Bormann: The Fuhrer's Watchdog 170 --
A Bell Tolls for a Sailor 174 --
Doomsday for Flight 19 174 --
Part 6 Peculiar Premonitions --
Churchill's Sudden Impulse 177 --
Mamie Eisenhower's Prediction 178 --
General Patton's "Previous Life" 179 --
"Captain Eddie" Senses Big Trouble 180 --
"I'll See You Someday!" 183 --
"I've Got a Gut Feeling!" 184 --
An Old Colonel's Luck Runs Out 185 --
"Friendly Fire" off Anzio 186 --
No Need for a Lighter 188 --
Ernest Hemingway Changes Chairs 189 --
A Bride's Haunting Nightmare 191 --
"Old Blood and Guts" Awakens 193 --
Ernie Pyle's Last Battle 193 --
Patton Tells His Family Good-bye 196 --
Part 7 Strange Encounters --
Roosevelt Meets a Nazi Agent 203 --
A Pipeline to the Fuhrer 205 --
Unlikely Reunion on the Rhine 208 --
A Publisher Visits the Front 209 --
A Chance Homecoming in Italy 210 --
Truce in an Irish Pub 210 --
Two Soldiers in a Foxhole 212 --
Getting an Old Friend Hanged 213 --
An Oil Baron Calls on Himmler 215.
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