The Craziest Stories of World War 2

ISBN-13: 9783565078752 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str.

Auke de Haan

Opis

War's supposed to be grim strategy and glory shots, but WWII served up sideshows straight from a fevered foxhole sketchpad: imagine British commandos paddling rubber dinghies onto Norway's coast for a Nazi radar raid, only to botch the landing and end up as sheep-herding guests for weeks, milking ewes for supper. Or the U.S. Army's bat-bomb project-fruit bats rigged with napalm packets, loosed over Japan to torch paper cities, till a hangar blaze turned the critters into accidental arsonists on home turf. These weren't side quests; they were the war's wiring gone haywire, where eggheads pitched pigeon-guided missiles and generals okayed corpse cons to crash Axis beach parties.Deeper in the muck, the Axis axis spun its own screwball specials: Himmler's Ahnenerbe goons digging Tibetan digs for Aryan roots, unearthing yak bones instead of blond blueprints, or Mussolini's frogman frogmen frogmarching into Allied harbors with human torpedoes that mostly torpedoed themselves. Flip to the Pacific, and it's pearl divers turned kamikaze pilots crashing boats into boats, or a Japanese holdout on a Guam rock, sniping tourists till 1974 because he missed the memo on Hiroshima. It's a carnival of calamity where spies swapped genders in drag dashes across the Pyrenees, and POWs brewed moonshine from potato peels to bribe guards with hooch-fueled hallucinations.By '45, even the end reeked of ridiculous: a German colonel surrendering his panzer division to a lone American jeep driver waving a white bedsheet, or Stalin's victory parade where troops goose-stepped with live geese under their arms to hide the loot. These yarns aren't just trivia-they're the yeast in the war's bitter bread, proving the biggest bangs came from the bungles nobody scripted. Crack this if you're wired for the what-the-hell whispers that outlast the salutes.

War's supposed to be grim strategy and glory shots, but WWII served up sideshows straight from a fevered foxhole sketchpad: imagine British commandos paddling rubber dinghies onto Norway's coast...