Secret Weapons

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Rarely has a book on World War II made a bigger impact than the first edition of Secret Weapons. The disclosure of British plans to feminize Adolf Hitler with hormones made world-wide television news, and was reported on 700,000 websites. Yet this was just a minor event in the tapestry of secret weapons development, and many of the stories have more important lessons to tell. How many realize that the decoding of the Enigma code was originally done, not by the British at Bletchley Park, but ten years earlier, in Poland? Or that the famous Operation Paperclip — believed to be an act of kindness — was a criminal act in defiance of international law? That the bouncing bomb raids — an act of sheer heroism — would now be a war crime against the Geneva Convention? Or that radar, far from being a British invention in World War II, was used by a host of nations world-wide — and was actually born in World War I? Truly, we know so little about the secret facts that lie behind the war.

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