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Armchair Reader World War Ii
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Description
This book includes more than 150 fascinating anecdotes and articles; hundreds of fast facts; and a World War II timeline that traces major events from the early 1930s to 1951. Here is a sampling of the topics that will inform and educate you about World War II:
Stella Goldschlag, The Blonde Poison, the fair-haired and attractive Jewish woman whose acts of betrayal condemned as many as 2,300 fellow Jews to s concentration camps.
Japan s Fu-go project, an attempt to attack the United States with balloon bombs released into the Pacific jet stream. About 300 reached the United States.
Germany s V-2 rockets that inflicted tremendous destruction in England were assembled underground near Nordhausen, Germany, by concentration-camp prisoners. More than 50,000 prisoners were assigned to this project, and only about half survived.
The United States s failed attempt to deploy bats armed with firebombs -- flying mammals, not Louisville Sluggers -- as weapons against Japan.
From President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General George Patton to leaders Adolf and Heinrich Himmler, from war strategies and tactics to the weapons of war, World War II Extraordinary Facts and Stories presents an extensive collection of World War II articles and personality profiles.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Release Date:
2007-01-01
Publication Date:
2007
Publisher:
West Side Publishing
Languages:
Published:
English
ISBN10:
1412714370
Weight:
703 g
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