Armchair Reader: World War II Extraordinary Facts and Stories - Softcover

Robert Bullington; William Martin; Jonathan Jordan; J. K. Kelley; David Lesjak; William David; Bill Sasser; Ed Moser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412714370 ISBN 13: 9781412714372

Publisher: West Side Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

World War II, the greatest conflict of the 20th century, spawned a fascinating array of personalities and events. World War II Extraordinary Facts and Stories, from the popular Armchair Reader series, relates the battles, bombings, and politics of World War II, and reveals intriguing and often overlooked details and little-known stories of the war.

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 Hitler s Nazi 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.
Nazi 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 Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: West Side Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1412714370
• ISBN 13: 9781412714372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 515