The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed by William B Breuer

The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed by William B Breuer

Acclaimed military historian William Breuer takes readers on a trip through the looking glass to acquaint them with the weirder side of World War I. 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 Republican Army members in New York conned Nazi intelligence out of a small fortune. There's also a thrilling account of how four American newsmen bagged an entire German platoon. And there's the haunting tale of the Mystery Plane, an experimental aircraft that took off on a short test flight over England one sunny afternoon in 1938 and simply vanished into a cloudless summer sky. This book draws on personal interviews, official archives, and declassified documents, as well as the vast literature on World War I.

WILLIAM B. BREUER is the author of twenty-six military history books, including Feuding Allies and Vendetta! The Military Reading Club has chosen ten of his novels as key picks, including The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and MacArthur's Secret War.