Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You about the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History

by James F. Dunnigan

Book Overview

Dirty Little Secrets of World War II exposes the dark, irreverent, misunderstood, and often tragicomic aspects of military operations during World War II, many of them virtually unknown even to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688122353
• ISBN13: 9780688122355
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This is a great addition to the home library. Perfect condition and a fun insight into WWII.

Good to go!

I am glad to see that the Greatest Generation had as many mistakes and foul ups as we do today. I found this book fascinating and addictive.

Trivia you thought you knew

This book is excellent for those who want to supplement their knowledge of World War II with real human stories and analysis of why the war went the way it did.The way it's written, it can be read at the pace you choose. It's divided into small anecdotes, and can be an excellent bathroom reader.

Its a great book of interesting facts

Unlike the "true Historians" who belittle this book, I recommend this book to people who really want to learn about the peculiaritites of World War Two. Of course if you've read a billion books about World War Two and have a superiority complex then you would not want this book. But for the casual reader of military history like myself, this book if filled with interesting and even soemtimes odd or humorous facts facts on the greatest war in military history which isn't covered in high school history like how the Allies could accurately predict the garrison of Japanese islands by counting the number out outhouses on an island then looking to the Japanese field manual for outhouses per how many men.I recomend this book for all of you casual readers of military history and not "true historians" who have a superiority complex. It is a treasure chest of interesting facts to people who dont read fifty books on World War Two every week. While this book may not be handy for doing a report on World War Two, it has plenty of interesting facts and figures though.

GOOD BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF WORLD WAR II

I have to give the authors 5 stars for being consistent and meeting their goal of describing what went on "behind the scenes" during World War II, even though the title is a bit deceptive since it doesn't tell "dirty little secrets" but rather provides interesting facts and sidelights you don't see in history or narratives devoted to the war. One of the previous reviewers said that this book was for the reader who had already read about the war, or had good knowledge of it, and wanted to know more about what went on behind the scenes, and that reviewer is quite correct. It pays to have a good general knowledge about World War II since the book doesn't cover events of the war (except for an appendix in the back listing chronological events) but rather is full of "little stories" in many cases supported by statistical tables. (Did you want to know how many ships were sunk, how much money was spent, who had the most casualties, etc? Tables keep you totally informed. Or did you want to know how the Italian frogmen sunk British ships? Or did you want to know about the German jet, or the Japanese rocket plane?) A lot of the book is pure commentary, but it is very interesting. An excellent companion book, for that is what it is.