Top Secret Tales of World War II

Espionage, in all its forms, as it evolved in the hands of both Allied and Axis agents of intelligence and counter-intelligence is the basis for these fascinating and ultimately disturbing stories.

WILLIAM B. BREUER is a military historian and author of more than 25 books, 10 of which have been main selections of the Military Book Club. They include Undercover Tales of World War II, Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, The Great Raid on Cabanatuan, Feuding Allies, and MacArthur's Undercover War (all from Wiley).

Introduction

1

(11)

Part One---Heading Toward the Abyss

Sinister Plots in the ``New Germany''

11

(5)

``Burglars'' Call on a Japanese Spymaster

16

(3)

Ten Moles in Hitler's High Command

19

(7)

A Scheme to Declare Hitler Insane

26

(2)

The Blond Beast's Ruse Backfires

28

(2)

Did His Generals Sabotage the Fuhrer?

30

(1)

Her Serene Highness Plots with Goering

31

(3)

A Bizarre Kidnapping Scheme

34

(2)

The French Consul's Janitor

36

(3)

A German General Spies on Himself

39

(3)

A Baseball Player's Foresight

42

(1)

Tailing a Soviet Spy in England

43

(6)

Part Two---The Lights Go Out in Europe

A Weird Hoax to Launch a War

49

(2)

Most Secret: Dufuse the Magnetic Mines

51

(2)

Mystery Explosion in a Nazi Shrine

53

(5)

Goering Hires a Rainmaker

58

(1)

Churchill's Amazing Gamble

59

(4)

A Covert Weather War

63

(3)

Masquerade on the High Seas

66

(5)

Nazi Spies in the U.S. Capitol

71

(3)

Two Tiny Tots Escape to England

74

(2)

The World's Dumbest Spy

76

(4)

Global Celebrity a Secret Agent

80

(1)

A POW's Wife Unlocks a Code

81

(3)

Canada's Covert ``Luxury Fleet''

84

(2)

One Airplane Infuriates the Fuhrer

86

(5)

Part Three---Thrusts and Counterthrusts

A Cunning Forgery Pays Off

91

(2)

Shopping for U.S. Secrets

93

(4)

A Scientist on a Covert Mission

97

(1)

``Black Propaganda'' Warriors

98

(2)

A Trojan Horse Hoax

100

(2)

The Bulldog Bites the German Navy

102

(3)

Keeno, King of the Robots

105

(3)

A German POW Makes History

108

(2)

A Kamikaze Plan Against Pearl Harbor

110

(1)

Hijacking Mussolini's Money

111

(3)

Hitler's Doom Seen in the Stars

114

(1)

Abwehr Dupe: Vice President Wallace

115

(2)

The Nazis' Most Unlikely Secret Agent

117

(6)

Part Four---Conflict Spreads Around the World

A Batty Idea for Firebombing Tokyo

123

(2)

The FBI Nabs a Honolulu ``Sleeper''

125

(3)

A French Counterfeit Traitor

128

(3)

Their Weapons Were Words

131

(3)

Peculiar Demise of a Captured Plane

134

(4)

A Bishop in Disguise

138

(1)

The Mysterious Inspector Thompson

139

(4)

A Nazi Counterfeiting Plot

143

(2)

A Chance Meeting in a Cafe

145

(2)

Hitler's Evil Guardian Angel

147

(5)

Roosevelt's Guest a Nazi Spy

152

(3)

Ruse in a Berlin Brothel

155

(3)

A Spy Spies on the Spymaster

158

(5)

Part Five---The Tide Turns

A Female Resistant Tricks the Gestapo

163

(1)

An Owner Blows Up His Factory

164

(2)

A Plan to Bomb the United States

166

(2)

The Princes and Seven Thousand Danish Jews

168

(2)

Eisenhower's Secret Weapon

170

(4)

A Call for Nazi Suicide Pilots

174

(1)

A Plot to Murder Two Allied Generals

175

(2)

Hitler Warned by a Female Spy

177

(2)

An Alarming Breach of Security

179

(2)

The Wizard and the Mushroom Man

181

(2)

Warning: Your Submarine May Explode

183

(2)

A Puzzling Episode in Normandy

185

(2)

A Poison ``Treatment'' for Hitler

187

(2)

Belgian Resistants Steal a Locomotive

189

(1)

A German General Cuts a Strange Deal

190

(5)

Part Six---Allied March to Victory

The Armee Secrete Saves Antwerp

195

(4)

Machinations at a Dutch Hotel

199

(2)

``Gift-Wrapping'' a Kidnap Victim

201

(2)

An Ingenious German Deception Plan

203

(2)

Spies Swarm into the Third Reich

205

(5)

Blasting Doomed Resistants to Freedom

210

(3)

The Plot to Surrender a Nazi Army

213

(5)

A Covert Plan to Seize Berlin

218

(2)

Urgent: Pilfer One Hundred Huge Missiles

220

(7)

Notes and Sources

227

(10)

Index

237

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