Dirty Little Secrets Of World WarII

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There aren'tmany "dirty secrets" in this addictively readable book. Really, it's acompendium of fun facts about horrors arranged in bite-size prose bitsand written under the influence of lead author Dunnigan's favoritebook, Will Cuppy's irreverent historical classic The Decline and Fallof Practically Everybody. The minichapters have titles like "KillerVegetables and the Farts from Hell" (at 20,000 feet, gas caused byeating cabbages expanded, killing airmen). Did you know that everysingle German spy who infiltrated England became an Allied doubleagent? That MacArthur, Churchill, and Roosevelt all descended from oneSarah Belcher of Taunton, Massachusetts? That World War II killed about100 million, or five percent of humanity? That a Russian was 100 timeslikelier to die than an American? (A USSR boy born in 1923 had aneighty-percent chance of dying by 1945.) We learn the origin of theterm "rock & roll" (all weapons firing on automatic), thesuperiority or stupidity of tracer bullets, G