Secrets and stories of the war Volume 2

A selection of articles and book condensations in which The Reader's Digest recorded the Second World War.

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Secrets and stories of the war Volume 2

A selection of articles and book condensations in which The Reader's Digest recorded the Second World War.

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Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pages
-720

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Table of Contents

Volume II.
The one that got away. Kendal Burt and James Leasor. 369
Cockleshell heroes. George Kent. 399
Fourteen days of hell on an icecap. Carl Wall. 405
I was a night-club spy. Claire Phillips and Frederick Painton. 412
The end of the Scharnhorst. C.S. Forester. 419
The man who saved London. George Kent. 426
'Wingate's circus'. Charles Rolo. 434
The corpse that hoaxed the axis. The Hon. Ewen E.S. Montagu. 442
Confusion was their business. Frederic Sondern. 452
Japan's last secret weapon-Balloons. Brigadier-General W.H. Wilbur. 458
The Battle of D-Day minus one. Blake Clark. 465
The neutral war in Scandinavia. Colonel Bernt Balchen. 470
The longest day. Cornelius Ryan. 475
The idol of San Vittore. Indro Montanelli. 553
The radar screens that told lies. Allan Michie. 560
'I fell 18,000 feet without a parachute'. Nicholas Stephen Alkemade. 567
The day Bombay blew up. John Ennis. 576
What really happened to Rommel. Countess Waldeck. 582
Death on a devine wind. Captain Rikihei Inoguchi and Commander Tadashi Nakajima. 588
The man with the miraculous hands. Joseph Kessel. 595
The RAF versus the V-2. Allan Michie. 638
They kidnapped a general. Greg Keeton. 643
The greatest sea-air battle in history. Hanson Baldwin. 650
Germany was bombed to defeat. Allan Michie. 657
Adolf Hitler's last days. Frederic Sondern. 666
The great Nazi counterfeit plot. Major George McNally. 677
Was this the deadliest error of our time? William Coughlin. 684
No high ground. Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey. 687

Edition Notes

Published in
London
Series
Volume 2 of 2

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
-720
Dimensions
19 x 14 x 3 centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24643586M

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15727156W

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