01727cam a2200241 4500 363637332 TxAuBib 20101206120000.0 040722s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780794505998 pbk. $4.95 0794505996 pbk. $4.95 (OCoLC)54472380 EOW EOW XY4 TDS TxAuBib Dowswell, Paul. True stories of the Second World War / Paul Dowswell. [1st U.S. ed. Tulsa, Okla : EDC Pub., 2003. 169 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. "First published in 2003 by Usborne Pub. Ltd., London, England"--T.p. verso. "As dirty a business as the world has ever seen...": Brief introduction to the Second World War -- First and final voyage of the Bismarck: Germany's most famous battleship takes to the sea -- Cracking Enigma: Disentangling the German navy's secret code -- Death of a salesgirl: Short life of British secret agent, Biolette Szabo -- Stalin's female "Falcons": Women who flew in the Soviet air force -- Book-keeper's storage problem: Adolf Eichmann oversees the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution -- War of the rats: Lieutenant Zaitsev meets Major Thorwald in the rubble of Stalingrad -- Lost hero: Raoul Wallenberg's mercy mission to Hungary has an unexpected ending -- "...like running through rain and not getting wet.": Surviving the Battle of Iwo Jima -- Destroyer of worlds: Manhattan Project and the atom bomb attacks on Japan -- Alias "Uncle Ricardo": Hunt for Adolf Eichmann -- From Technicolor to black and white...: After the war ended. 20040722. World War, 1939-1945.