Weird War Two: Intriguing Items and Surprising Stuff From the Second World War

Taylor, Peter

ISBN 10: 1904897436 / ISBN 13: 9781904897439

Published by Imperial War Museum, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weird War Two: Intriguing Items and Surprising Stuff From the Second World War
• Publisher: Imperial War Museum
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904897436
• ISBN 13: 9781904897439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 620 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A war as extensive and long-lasting as World War II produces an incalculable number of artifacts. And museums as big and well-stocked as the Imperial War Museums have plenty of the ones you’d expect to find: tanks, jets, helmets, guns, and the like. But there was a whole lot more to the war—and a surprising amount of it is, well, downright weird.

​Weird War Two pulls the strangest items from deep within the IWM’s archives to offer a surprising new, wildly entertaining angle on the war. From wacky inventions such as flying jeeps and bat bombs to elusive secret agents, from wholly bizarre propaganda posters to a dummy whose role as a decoy enabled a daring escape, and from inflatable tanks to painted cows—really—Weird War Two reminds us that human ingenuity is boundless, yet at the same time that usually means that truth ends up stranger than fiction.

About the Author

Peter Taylor worked at the Imperial War Museum for three years and is the author of Weird War One.