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Secret Weapons of World War II
Secret Weapons of World War II
Secret Weapons of World War II
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"This was a secret war, whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public … No such warfare had ever been waged by mortal men."

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Second World War, Vol. II
LanguageEnglish
PublisherArcadia Press
Release dateAug 18, 2017
ISBN9788822813107
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    Everything you ever wanted to know about rocket planes, guided missiles, floating harbors, radar, rockets, mine-clearing tanks, and a dozen other technological wonders--some fabulously successful and some more of a hazard to their users than to the enemy. Pawle writes his thematic chapters in a style that's readable without losing its authoritative air; sometimes you actually wish he'd loosen up a bit and embrace the absurdity of the machinery he's writing about.
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    Not every experiment is successful; Pawle covers both the more memorable secret weapons that were actually employed, along with quite a few more that sounded good in theory; but utterly failed in practice.

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