THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY OPERATIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY OPERATIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY OPERATIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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The most original and extravagant missions and operations of the Second World War.
Many military operations mark the Second World War, across multiple fronts. 

 

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Many military operations mark the Second World War across multiple fronts. Some were vast and well-known — Barbarossa, Overlord, or Market Garden — but others were more modest, sometimes more audacious, certainly more inventive and even more far-fetched, and have fallen into obscurity.

What could be more outlandish, more extraordinary, than releasing a million bats carrying incendiary charges over Japan — while simultaneously developing the atomic bomb? Poisoning the Reich's pastures with anthrax? Building an aircraft carrier out of ice? Falsifying one's own staff maps to deceive the enemy should they fall into his hands? And what to make of those German fighter pilots whose mission was to ram the tail fins of Allied bombers? Or those Italian sailors who rode underwater torpedoes?

Claude Quétel, drawing on his intimate knowledge of the conflict, unearths some thirty of these forgotten operations and describes with great skill their often colourful and spectacular preparation and execution.

Author 1
Claude Quetel
Publication date
August 2019
Pages
395
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
PERRIN
EAN
9782262074364

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