The heaviest and most blood-soaked war in human history—the Second World War—has left us with countless unsolved mysteries and riddles. Among them: the struggle for Otto’s Spear and Hess’s strange flight to England, the tragedy of Katyn and the Siege of Leningrad, the Battle of Rzhev (“the Second Stalingrad”) and the operation in Manila Bay, the top-secret catastrophes of ships and disappearances of works of art… The exploits of spies and attempts on the lives of leaders and commanders, the heroism of underground fighters and partisans, and the lowliness of collaborators, the pursuit of the newest military technology and strange actions of politicians—propaganda campaigns and financial sabotage… All of this is compellingly narrated in the pages of a new book from the “100 Great” series.
Contents:
001 “EARTHQUAKE” IN THE THIRD REICH (Based on V. Orlov)
002 THE HUNT FOR THE FÜHRER (Based on Yu. Sokolov)
003 UNSUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT (Based on D. Prokhorov)
004 THE RISE AND FALL OF ERIK HANSUSSEN
005 “EASTERN ADVENTURES” OF HENRICH HARRER
006 OTTO’S SPEAR—HITLER’S CHERISHED DREAM (Based on E. Tverskaya)
007 OTTO RAN AND KATHARINA: BETWEEN SECRET AND FRAUD
008 DID HITLER HAVE A SECRET INFORMANT? (Based on G. Polish)
009 THE MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT OF HESS (Based on A. Sidenko)
010 THE LINEAR SHIP “SHARNHORST”—THE CURSE OF KRIEGSMARINE
011 THE PASSION THAT ALMOST RUINED GEBBELS’S CAREER (Based on O. Dmitrieva)
012 “THE SPY WHO TOOK OVER HITLER?” (Based on A. Pisareva)
013 WHAT HAPPENED IN GLIVINGITZ?
014 KATYN: STALIN OR HITLER?
015 THE RAID OF THE RAIDER “ATLANTIS”
016 THE SECRET CARGO ON THE CRUISER “EMERALD”
017 HOW THE ENEMY PILOTS WERE OUTWITTED
018 WAS A FASCIST SWORD FORGED IN THE USSR? (Based on A. Pisareva)
019 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE “HOLY WAR”
020 THE MYTH OF “SUDDENNESS” (Based on Yu. Basistov)
021 DID HITLER DELIVER A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE ON THE USSR?
022 THE TRUTH AND INVENTIONS ABOUT PENAL UNITS (Based on A. Shcherbakov)
023 ORDER No. 270, OR THE GENERALS WHO WERE EXECUTED (Based on Colonel of Justice A. Liskin)
024 BATTLESHIP “MARAT”: LIFE AFTER “THE DESTRUCTION” (Based on A. Maltsev)
025 THE END OF “SWANETIA” (Based on S. Solovyov and L. Vyatkin)
026 THE SECRET CATASTROPHE OF THE TRANSPORT “ARMENIA”
027 THE DRAMA OF THE STEAMSHIP “LENIN”
028 THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE CRUISER “SIDNEY”
029 HOW THEY ALMOST SURRENDERED LENINGRAD
030 WAS NIKOLAI GASTELLO’S FEAT REAL? (Based on V. Chuprin)
031 THE ODYSSEY OF THE “KATYUSHA” (Based on A. Pervushin)
032 OPERATION “FLIGHT CAPTAIN,” OR WHY DIDN’T THE GERMANS BOMB LIPETSK? (Based on the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”)
033 THE RUSSIAN “TITANIC” (Based on V. Solntsev)
034 RIDDLES OF THE BATTLE OF RZHEV (Based on N. Charuhcheva)
035 THE MOST SECRET AIRFIELD (Based on L. Vyatkin)
036 HOW BARRAGE BALLOONS FOUGHT (Based on A. Bernstein, a veteran of aeronautics)
037 FROM FASCIST CAMPS—TO THE SOVIETS (Based on M. Vaisman)
038 THE REPUBLIC OF THE PUNISHERS OF BRONISLAW KAMINSKI (Based on A. Fedosov)
039 WITH THE ORDER OF LENIN—TO BECOME ALLIES OF HITLER (Based on K. Alexandrov)
040 ORDER No. 227. THE TRUTH ABOUT PENAL BATTALIONS (Based on A. Bernstein)
041 SUPER-RICH ORE GROUP, OR THE UNKNOWN FEAT OF THE 30TH BATTERY (Based on L. Vyatkin)
042 THE FAILURE OF OPERATION “BLAU” (Based on G. Yastrebts)
043 THE UNSUCCESSFUL SLIP TO THE EAST (Based on A. Shcherbakov)
044 A PENALTY TROOPER PRESENTED THREE TIMES FOR THE TITLE OF HERO (Based on A. Maltsev)
045 AIR COMBAT: HEROES REAL AND IMAGINED (Based on K. Tarasov)
046 BETRAYED TO OBLIVION: THE TRIUMPH AND DRAMA OF SUBMARINER GRISHCHENKO (Based on V. Shigin)
047 THE SECRET OF THE “BELONZ DISK”
048 HITLER’S SECRET INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES
049 THE SILVER OPERATION IN MANILA BAY
050 HOW WAS THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR PROJECT CREATED?
051 “LADIES, BE OBEDIENT”—OR THE LAST SHELTER OF THE “LIBERATOR”
052 OPERATION “POISONED CUTLET”
053 ELIMINATION OF THE “MASTER OF THE PACIFIC”
054 WHY DIDN’T THEY BOMB AUSCHWITZ?
055 LIQUIDATION OF THE GAULEITER IN CUBE (Based on D. Prokhorov)
056 THE MYSTERY OF THE “BERNHARD ENTERPRISE”
057 THE SECRET OF THE “SHAPESHIFTER” (Based on S. Prokopchuk)
058 HOW THEY MADE PAULUS INTO VLASOV (Based on the newspaper “Sovershenno sekretno”)
059 THE DRAMA OF THE VOLGA-TATAR LEGION
060 DEADLY GAMES OF THE KYIV “DINAMO” (Based on A. Kosarev)
061 THE MAN WHO OUTPLAYED OTTO SKORZENY
062 THE CASE OF SHILOV—TAVRIN (Based on D. Prokhorov)
063 THE SECRET OF JANE HORNEE
064 THIS UNPARALLELED “CICERO”
065 THE BEGINNING OF THE ERA OF RADIOTHUGS (Based on T. Samoylova)
066 THE GLORY THAT HELD ON: RICHARD SORGE
067 AND BURNED AT NOON—THE PRISON WALLS… (Based on S. Pervushin)
068 THE EXPLOIT OF THE RECONNAISSANCE WOMAN (Based on A. Kalgano v)
069 THE RADIO OPERATOR OF MAJOR VIKHR (Based on L. Karamyshev)
070 THE SUBMARINE THAT SANK ITSELF
071 THE ROCKET MONSTER (Based on L. Vyatkin)
072 GERMAN WONDER WEAPON AND HOW THEY FOUGHT IT (Based on M. Pavlushenko)
073 ARE THERE COSMONAUTS OF THE THIRD REICH? (Based on A. Danilina and V. Bumagin)
074 LONDON AGAINST “NORSK-HYDRO”
075 THE GRAVITY GUN OF THE THIRD REICH (Based on V. Psalomshchikov)
076 OPERATION “QUEEN’S MOVE” (Based on S. Ryabov)
077 FIELD MARSHAL ROMMEL: THE END OF A LEGEND (Based on D. Irving)
078 THE TRAGEDY OF VERONA IN THE 20TH CENTURY
079 THE LAST MINUTES OF BENITO MUSSOLINI (Based on I. Kutina)
080 CANARIS: TRAITOR OR HERO?
081 “THE DIVINE WIND” BLEW ONE WAY (Based on F. Perfilov)
082 JAPANESE SABOTEURS IN THE SIBERIAN TAIGA (Based on T. Samoylova)
083 AMERICAN FROG PEOPLE
084 THERE WAS ALSO BIRCH BARK…
085 THE UNTOLD STORY OF “CAP ARKONA”
086 THE SECRET OF DETACHMENT No. 731 (Based on A. Kleva)
087 THE TERRIBLE END OF THE GEBBELS FAMILY (Based on A. Kalgano v)
088 THE LAST DAYS AND HOURS OF HIMMLER (Based on A. Kalgano v)
089 DEATH—ONE MORE SECRET OF HITLER (Based on L. Kapelyushny and S. Turchenko)
090 WHAT HAPPENED TO EVE BRAUN? (Based on A. Sidorenko)
091 BLITZ-SCANDAL AROUND “HITLER’S DIARIES” (Based on A. Sidorenko)
092 POSTHUMOUS ODYSSEY OF MARTIN BORMANN (Based on D. Prokhorov)
093 HEINRICH MÜLLER: LIFE AFTER “DEATH” (Based on A. Pronina and G. Tumen kova)
094 WAS WALLENBERG A DOUBLE AGENT?
095 THE AMBER ROOM (Based on A. Ovsyanov)
096 THE STRANGE FATE OF GENERAL SMYSLOVSKY (Based on N. Shvetsov)
097 THE POSTWAR ODYSSEY OF CORVETTE CAPTAIN VON RETTEL (Based on V. Ilyin)
098 THE REICH’S TREASURES ON A SUNKEN SUBMARINE? (Based on L. Vyatkin)
099 THE WEALTH OF THE NAZIS SURFACES ACROSS THE OCEAN
100 THE LAST VICTIM OF WORLD WAR II