The Untold War: 20 Forgotten Battles & Secret Operations of WWII (Ebook)

The war behind the war

Everyone knows Normandy and Midway. But the Second World War was decided in battles most history books skip: a handful of destroyers charging the largest battleship ever built, a supercarrier sunk eleven days after launch, a general's warning nobody believed, a corpse that fooled Hitler.

The Untold War collects 20 of those stories in one volume: the full, expanded accounts behind the WWII Untold Stories channel's most-watched documentaries, plus secret operations never covered on the channel.

Inside the book

Part I: The Pacific Inferno

• The Stand Off Samar: Taffy 3 against the giants
• Surigao Strait: the Pearl Harbor battleships' revenge
• Shinano: the giant that lived eleven days
• Yamato's last voyage
• The decoy that worked too well
• The mission that killed Yamamoto
• The P-38 over New Guinea
• The Corsair: "Whistling Death"
• The Zero America captured
• The Silent Service: the submarine war that strangled an empire

Part II: Europe's Hidden War

• The man who saw the Bulge coming (Patton's intelligence chief)
• Operation Greif: caught by baseball trivia
• Market Garden
• Operation Mincemeat
• The Ghost Army
• The St Nazaire raid
• The Cockleshell Heroes
• Heavy water sabotage
• Castle Itter: enemies side by side
• Rommel's choice

Every chapter includes

• A Key Facts box: date, forces, losses and result in 30 seconds
• Why It Mattered: the strategic consequence, plainly explained
• Authentic wartime photographs (U.S. National Archives)

53 pages.

Format: PDF ebook, instant digital download. Read on any phone, tablet or computer. Set in a large, easy-read type size.

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Original writing. Photographs from U.S. government and public-domain archives, credited inside the book.