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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
September 1940. Britain is rife with rumors of dead Nazis washed up on the beaches of the southeast coast-their bodies charred as though burnt alive. This book explores the truth behind these rumors and the intriguing story of Operation Lucid-the British plan to create a network of flame barrages to incinerate any Nazi invasion flotilla. Soon stories of flame warfare spread across Europe and to America, where journalists report that "10,000 Germans...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Historical fiction as written by Philip Van Doren Stern is much more than a literary exercise tinctured with the dramatic past. It is the historical record cast in excellent prose style in order to recreate in as lifelike manner as possible the long-ago. Historians, no doubt, will remember the author of The Drums of Morning as the individual who published The Man Who Killed Lincoln and The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Stern's interest in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Accounts of World War I usually center on grueling life in the trenches, living and fighting on the front line. While incorporating wartime life, this book gives a refreshingly different perspective by looking at the rich crop of legends that sprang from the battlefields. Some of these myths still persist in the public consciousness even today, yet all are mirrored in recent conspiracy theories, folk tales of the paranormal, and moral panics. The...
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