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DECLASSIFIED • FORGOTTEN • BURIED
The war you know is only half the story.
Secret operations, hidden decisions and forgotten stories of WWII. Choose your edition.
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COMPLETE EDITION · 76 CHAPTERS
World War II: Hidden History
Secret weapons, phantom armies, codebreakers, lost treasure and vanished men: 76 cases across 8 parts.
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- Enigma & Ultra, Operation Fortitude, Operation Mincemeat
- The Amber Room, Yamashita’s gold, Unit 731, Paperclip
- The 15 Small Edition cases, rewritten and expanded
You’ll find out how a corpse and a briefcase fooled Hitler.
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A shorter introduction to some of the most fascinating mysteries and hidden stories of WWII.
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- Die Glocke, the Foo Fighters, Rudolf Hess, the Amber Room and more
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You’ll find out whether Die Glocke was a real secret weapon or a postwar legend.
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15 H 15 MIN OF LISTENING
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BEYOND THE HISTORY BOOKS
The Second World War was fought on more than just the battlefield.
In the last weeks of the war, clerks across the collapsing Reich burned orders, blueprints, bank records and lists of names, day and night. Other files were carried off by the victors and sealed for decades. The Allied breaking of Enigma, perhaps the greatest intelligence achievement of the war, was not revealed to the public until 1974.
What remains is a record full of gaps. Some stories are fully documented and declassified. Others rest on a single witness, are still debated by historians, or are surrounded by conflicting accounts that were never resolved.
This collection walks through both: the secret operations, espionage and deception we now know took place, and the legends that grew in the spaces the archives left empty. Each case sets out the evidence, the doubts, and what is still unknown.
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WHY THIS COLLECTION
The stories are out there. The problem is finding them.
A remarkable WWII story usually turns up as a footnote, a documentary aside or a single paragraph in a thick book, and then disappears. Following it means digging through:
This collection gathers 76 of those cases into one coherent reading experience: eight parts, each chapter self-contained, each with the context you need.
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INSIDE THE COMPLETE EDITION
76 chapters.One hidden side of the war.
Seventy-six cases organised into eight parts, from the war's most famous mysteries to the long aftermath that governments preferred to bury.
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The 15 Greatest Secrets of the War
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A shorter introduction for readers who want to start with the war's most talked-about mysteries: Die Glocke, the Foo Fighters, the flight of Rudolf Hess, the Amber Room, the U-boats that surrendered in Argentina, and ten more. Each is examined as fact or legend in a 38-page PDF, or listen to the full 1h 55m audiobook.
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The dead man who fooled Hitler
In 1943 British intelligence dressed a corpse as an officer, chained a briefcase of fake secret plans to him and slipped him into the sea off Spain. Hitler moved his troops. Get the whole true story free in your inbox: the PDF and the 12-minute audio.
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