The Craziest Stories of World War 2

Did you know the Allies faked an entire invasion fleet with inflatable tanks? Or that the U.S. military seriously considered strapping tiny firebombs to bats and releasing them over Japan? World War II is full of stories so strange they sound made up, but they are not. This book collects the wildest, most bizarre true episodes of the war that rarely make it into textbooks. From Nazi issued methamphetamine pills that kept tank crews awake for three day assaults to Britain's plan to dye the Rhine fluorescent green just to rattle German morale, every chapter delivers something genuinely surprising. Japanese balloon bombs drifted across the Pacific and killed picnickers in Oregon. Soviet soldiers rode reindeer to sabotage German airfields. France built a full scale wooden decoy of Paris to fool enemy bombers. It is all sourced and documented, even the parts that sound completely unbelievable. Ghost armies, inflatable tanks, and elaborate deception operations that fooled entire divisions. The bat bomb project, kamikaze dolphins, and Churchill's iceberg aircraft carrier that would have melted.