Shadow of the Fog City: A Collection of Strange WWII Stories

Author: William B. Bruer
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "Facts are often stranger than fiction," as Robert Ripley often said. This insightful observation seems perfectly suited to this book. It narrates the bizarre, inexplicable, and seemingly impossible stories that occurred during World War II. There are countless books about World War II, but few delve into the mysterious, quirky, and puzzling tales. This book may fill that gap. After carefully reading the individual stories in this book, readers might think, "This could never happen, right? It's completely illogical!" However, these fascinating and often hard-to-understand stories are all meticulously investigated and verified—only because logic often seemed absurd during wartime. There have never been a lack of those "scholarly experts" who have no war experience and always sneer at the illogical incidents that occurred during the war. However, veterans and senior commanders on the battlefield are well aware that mysterious and bizarre stories frequently happened, and indeed, they were "stranger than fiction."