عنوان

The spy who spent the war in bed :

شابک

0471267392

شابک

9780471267393

شماره

b712272

عنوان اصلي

The spy who spent the war in bed :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

and other bizarre tales from World War II /

نام نخستين پديدآور

William B. Breuer.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Hoboken, NJ :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Wiley,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 220 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

PART ONE: A ROCKY ROAD TO WAR: Amazing Encounter at Pier 66 ; A British "Mystery Plane" Vanishes ; A One-Man Espionage Apparatus ; Recruting Crossword Puzzle Geniuses ; New York's IRA Hoodwinks Spymaster ; Stalking a Soviet Defector ; Two Spies Roam British Ports ; Stealing Secrets by Mail ; "Simple Simon" Trips Himself Up ; A Taxi Ignores Theory ; The IRA Bilks and Abwehr ; Clash of Two Top Nazis ; Hitler's Pipeline into Washington ; A Senator Helps German Spy ; A Peculiar River Crossing ; Dame Fate Saves General Rommel ; Going in Style to a POW Camp ; Clanging Bells Rock Germany ; Did Premier's Mistress Influence Surrender? Venus de Milo Fools Germans -- PART TWO: THE ALLIES' HOURS OF CRISIS: Mission "Nazify" a Conquered Nation ; Curfew for Dutch Dogs and Ducks ; Wild Schemes for Saving England ; Curious Duel in British Skies ; A German Pilot's Unlikely Captor ; The Royal Navy's Invisible Ship ; Hitler's Plot to Murder Franco ; A Cleaning Woman Foils Hitler ; The Battle of the Birds ; Roosevelt in a Shouting Match ; Democracy in a Battlefield Hospital ; Strange Means for Urgent Warning ; A History-Making Encounter ; A Dedicated Blood-Bank Volunteer ; The Spymaster's Peculiar Scheme ; A Pursuit of Bugs and Lice ; A Cantankerous Torpedo ; Curious Death of a German Bigwig ; Ernest Hemingway Stalks U-Boats ; Fluke Saves a British Fleet ; The War's Craziest Wedding Scenario ; Two WACs on a Secret Mission ; Strange Place for Royal Jewels -- PART THREE: THE TIDE STARTS TO TURN: Navajo Code-Talkers Ignite Panic ; Adolf Hitler Plays Santa Claus ; Purple Heart Stripped from Sailor ; Saga of Top-Secret Maps ; Eisenhower Aide Helps Trick Germans ; The General's Pants Go AWOL ; Mystery of the Vanishing Report ; Hostile Horsemen Chase Airplane ; A Dead Sergeant Walks Away ; A Tank Commander's Close Call ; Espionage in the Vatican ; OSS Agent's Hidden Bribes ; An Unlikely Spy Scores Coup ; Eisenhower Disclosure Stuns Reporters ; An Horrendous Bombing Error Pays Off ; Freak Encounter in No-Man's Land ; A Mule-Borne Commander ; The Captain Refused to Be Killed ; Two GIs Beat Patton to Goal ; "Prescriptions" for the Lady Spy ; Huge Bonus for a Jungle Spy ; "The Madame" Was a Secret Agent ; A Movie Fan on Bougainville ; A GI Carries His Eyeball -- PART FOUR: BEGINNING OF THE END: An Odd Place for Spying ; Hitler's "Creatures" at Anzio ; American Spymaster Shocks London ; Exciting Races on a Beachhead ; A Social Visit to the Enemy ; The Spy Spent the War in Bed ; Secret Agent Saved by a Blacksmith ; A Bomb Explodes too Late ; An Ingenious Escape Artist ; A Prophetic German Cook ; Gods Smile on Teddy Roosevelt ; "Dont't Worry, I'll Shoot You First!" An Enemy Saves "Father Sam" ; Firefighters Center of Attention ; The "Mess Sergeant" Was a Lady ; Massacre in the Wrong Village ; A General Turned Fire Chief ; The Great Soap Bubble Scheme ; A Triumph for Two OSS Men ; Four Newsmen Bag a German Platoon ; German Shootout Among Themselves ; Ordeal for Missing Twins ; Parachute Pack Saves Trooper ; Drone Boats Go Berserk ; "Am I Having Hallucinations?" A Doctor Captures German Hospital ; A Colonel's Unique "Uniform" -- PART FIVE: ALLIED ROAD TO VICTORY: Banzai Charge in a POW Camp ; A Nazi Zealot Obeys His Führer ; Miracle Saves Woman Spy's Life ; The War's Unexplained Mystery ; Dutch Boys Capture Nine Germans ; Luck Runs Out for the Blue Goose ; "Baby Patrol" in Mo-Man's-Land ; Providence Saves a Polish Spy ; The Choirboys Plot to Doom Hitler ; "Kidnapping" a 30-Ton Tank ; A Hero "Resigns" from the Navy ; A Jeep Bonanza for "Scarface Otto" ; A Peculiar Reception Committee ; Hitler Humbles His Generals ; History Repeats for German Colonel ; A Jinxed Town in Belgium ; A French Woman Halts the Panzers ; Hex by a Lieutenant's Pal ; A Fluke Halts Eisenhower Trip ; A GI "Division" of Thieves ; The Miracle of Wiltz ; Unique Distinction for a Survivor ; Digging Up a Revered German Hero ; An Unlikely Battlefield Hero -- PART SIX: A SHAKY WORLD PEACE: Amazing Scenario in Manila ; Death Stalks a Navy Pilot ; Shootout at a Boxcar ; MacArthur Recaptures His Home ; Offering Up a Bonfire of Money ; A Tommy-Gunning Pilot ; God's Smile on German General ; A Tail Gunner's Miraculous Survival ; Curious Incident in a Command Post ; Hoax to Seize a Rhine Bridge ; Churchill "Consecrates" the Siegfried Line ; An Airman Dodges Certain Death ; Pilot's Prayer Gets Results ; Glider Used as a Weapon ; His Masseur Coerces Himmler ; A Surrender-by-Telephone Tactic ; Kidnapping Polish Underground Leaders ; El Darbo's Charmed Life ; Air Dogfight With Pistols ; Comic Opera in the Bavarian Alps ; Collaring a Nazi Bigwig ; Peculiar "Capture" of an SS Colonel ; Stalin's Son in Strange Mission ; A Scheme to Blow Up Japan ; Odd Interlude on a Train ; A Soldier's Thirty-Year War.

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

Presents 140 stories based on interviews, archives, and declassified documents that tell of some of the offbeat incidents that occurred during World War II.

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Deception.

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Military intelligence.

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Underground movements.

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945, Miscellanea.

موضوع مستند نشده

Deception.

موضوع مستند نشده

Military intelligence.

موضوع مستند نشده

Underground movements, War.

موضوع مستند نشده

Weltkrieg

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Breuer, William B.,1922-2010.

تاريخ عمليات

20201208024856.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y