Bibliograph

True stories of the Second World War, Paul Dowswell

Type

Label

True stories of the Second World War, Paul Dowswell

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

True stories of the Second World War

Oclc number

54472380

Responsibility statement

Paul Dowswell

Table Of Contents

"As dirty a business as the world has ever seen...": Brief introduction to the Second World War -- First and final voyage of the Bismarck: Germany's most famous battleship takes to the sea -- Cracking Enigma: Disentangling the German navy's secret code -- Death of a salesgirl: Short life of British secret agent, Biolette Szabo -- Stalin's female "Falcons": Women who flew in the Soviet air force -- Book-keeper's storage problem: Adolf Eichmann oversees the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution -- War of the rats: Lieutenant Zaitsev meets Major Thorwald in the rubble of Stalingrad -- Lost hero: Raoul Wallenberg's mercy mission to Hungary has an unexpected ending -- "...like running through rain and not getting wet.": Surviving the Battle of Iwo Jima -- Destroyer of worlds: Manhattan Project and the atom bomb attacks on Japan -- Alias "Uncle Ricardo": Hunt for Adolf Eichmann -- From Technicolor to black and white...: After the war ended

Target audience

juvenile

Creator