William B. Breuer (1922–2010)
Autore di Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
Sull'Autore
William B. Breuer is a military historian and author of more than twenty-six books, ten of which have been main selections of the Military Book Club
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) There exists some doubt as to the veracity of the claimed 1988 death for William B. Breuer.
Opere di William B. Breuer
The Air Raid Warden Was a Spy: And Other Tales from Home-Front America in World War II (2003) 31 copie
Tajné příběhy II. světové války 1 copia
Mysteries of World War II 1 copia
Juriš na Rajnu 1 copia
Unexplained Mysteries WWI 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1922-09-17
- Data di morte
- 2010-08-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Rolla, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Attività lavorative
- historyk
author
military historian
journalist
public relations - Relazioni
- Breuer, Vivian (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- United States Army
Rolla Herald
William B. Breuer and Associates - Nota di disambiguazione
- There exists some doubt as to the veracity of the claimed 1988 death for William B. Breuer.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Utenti
- 1,833
- Popolarità
- #14,047
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 116
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 2
Over the course of roughly 240 pages, Breuer relates stories and anecdotes of incidents of underhand dealings, spying, and military intrigue surrounding World War II from both sides of the conflict. While some of them were interesting and worth reading about, many couldn’t be classified the same. Obviously what one person thinks is a deception could be different from someone else’s but to me when I think of deceptions in the context of a military conflict dropping spies behind enemy lines—while important to a military’s overall strategy—isn’t on the same level as the operations to create a phantom army to mask Operation Overlord or Operation Mincemeat neither of which were even mentioned in this book. And either Breur or his editors left in tiny mistakes that were factually incorrect with one of the most egregious being a line that said the Chief of German military intelligence was working for the British. So, while a nice book to pass the time overall I wasn’t impressed.
Deceptions of World War II is a slender volume of stories and anecdotes about the cloak-and-dagger events of the global conflict, but to me a lot didn’t feel like “deceptions”.… (altro)