Author: William Breuer
Publisher: Book Sales, Inc.
Keywords: war, world, tales, bizarre
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0785819924
ISBN-13: 9780785819929
Ernest Hemingway stalks U-Boats. A Belgian woman halts the Panzers. Adolf Hitler plays Santa Claus. If you think these are tall tales, guess again. More than 140 of the most bizarre, curious, and downright strange incidents from World War II are documented here based on personal interviews, archives and declassified documents.
Author: William B. Breuer
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: war, tales, world, bizarre, bed, spent, spy
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-04-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0471267392
ISBN-13: 9780471267393
A rare treat for World War II history buffs and fans of the strange, absurd, and unexplained Acclaimed military historian William Breuer takes readers on a trip through the looking glass to acquaint them with the weirder side of World War II. Featuring a cast of characters including double- and triple-agents, femme fatales, fearless leaders, and men at arms, The Spy who Spent the War In Bed is a collection of seventy concise, vividly rendered tales of war, ranging from laugh-out-loud funny, to inspiring, to just-plain-bizarre. For instance, there’s the one about how reputed Irish Republ
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: bizarre, lazar, miss, school, weird
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 0060822252
ISBN-13: 9780060822255
Miss Lazar, the janitor, likes to dance around the school with a mop! She has a secret room down in the basement where she keeps the bad kids! She says cleaning throw–up is fun! Miss Lazar is the weirdest custodian in the history of the world!
Authors:Russell Ash, Brian Lake,
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: oddities, classic, compendium, books, bizarre
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0061346659
ISBN-13: 9780061346651
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover—but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know! Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten corners of out-of-the-way libraries and through the literary detritus of eclectic private collections. It is certain to delight every true fan of trivia and the patently absurd.
Author: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: natures, dangerous, creatures, world, bizarre, rex, inside, parasite
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-09-21
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0684856387
ISBN-13: 9780684856384
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts’ own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world’s most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zim
Author: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: nature, dangerous, creatures, world, bizarre, rex, inside, parasite
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-09-11
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 074320011X
ISBN-13: 9780743200110
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts’ own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world’s most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zim
Author: Ben Macintyre
Publisher: Crown
Keywords: nazis, assured, allied, victory, fooled, plan, mincemeat, dead, man, bizarre, operation
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-05-04
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0307453278
ISBN-13: 9780307453273
Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated— Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack south
