Top Secret Tales of World War II by William B. Breuer -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction Part One–Heading Toward the Abyss

Sinister Plots in the “New Germany” “Burglars Call” on a Japanese Spymaster Ten Moles in Hitler’s High Command A Scheme to Declare Hitler Insane The Blond Beast’s Ruse Backfires Did His Generals Sabotage the Führer? Her Serene Highness Plots with Goering A Bizarre Kidnapping Scheme The French Consul’s Janitor A German General Spies on Himself A Baseball Player’s Foresight Tailing a Soviet Spy in England

Part Two–The Lights Go Out in Europe

A Weird Hoax to Launch a War Most Secret: Defuse the Magnetic Mines Mystery Explosion in a Nazi Shrine Goering Hires a Rainmaker Churchill’s Amazing Gamble A Covert Weather War Masquerade on the High Seas Nazi Spies in the U.S. Capitol Two Tiny Tots Escape to England The World’s Dumbest Spy Global Celebrity a Secret Agent A POW’s Wife Unlocks a Code Canada’s Covert “Luxury Fleet” One Airplane Infuriates the Führer

Part Three–Thrusts and Counterthrusts

A Cunning Forgery Pays Off Shopping for U.S. Secrets A Scientist on a Covert Mission “Black Propaganda” Warriors A Trojan Horse Hoax The Bulldog Bites the German Navy Keeno, King of the Robots A German POW Makes History A Kamikaze Plan Against Pearl Harbor Hijacking Mussolini’s Money Hitler’s Doom Seen in the Stars Abwehr Dupe: Vice President Wallace The Nazis’ Most Unlikely Secret Agent

Part Four–Conflict Spreads Around the World

A Batty Idea for Firebombing Tokyo The FBI Nabs a Honolulu “Sleeper” A French Counterfeit Traitor Their Weapons Were Words Peculiar Demise of a Captured Plane A Bishop in Disguise The Mysterious Inspector Thompson A Nazi Counterfeiting Plot A Chance Meeting in a Café Hitler’s Evil Guardian Angel Roosevelt’s Guest a Nazi Spy Ruse in a Berlin Brothel A Spy Spies on the Spymaster

Part Five–The Tide Turns

A Female Resistant Tricks the Gestapo An Owner Blows Up His Factory A Plan to Bomb the United States The Princes and Seven Thousand Danish Jews Eisenhower’s Secret Weapon A Call for Nazi Suicide Pilots A Plot to Murder Two Allied Generals Hitler Warned by a Female Spy An Alarming Breach of Security The Wizard and the Mushroom Man Warning: Your Submarine May Explode A Puzzling Episode in Normandy A Poison “Treatment” for Hitler Belgian Résistants Steal a Locomotive A German General Cuts a Strange Deal

Part Six–Allied March to Victory

The Armée Secrète Saves Antwerp Machinations at a Dutch Hotel “Gift-Wrapping” a Kidnap Victim An Ingenious German Deception Plan Spies Swarm into the Third Reich Blasting Doomed Résistants to Freedom The Plot to Surrender a Nazi Army A Covert Plan to Seize Berlin Urgent: Pilfer One Hundred Huge Missiles

Notes and Sources Index