The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed: And Other Bizarre Tales from World War II Book

Introduction.

Part One—A Rocky Road to War.

Amazing Encounter at Pier 86.

A British “Mystery Plane” Vanishes.

A One-Man Espionage Apparatus.

Recruiting Crossword Puzzle Geniuses.

New York’s IRA Hoodwinks Spymaster.

Stalking a Soviet Defector.

Two Spies Roam British Ports.

Stealing Secrets by Mail.

“Simple Simon” Trips Himself Up.

A Taxi Ignores Theory.

The IRA Bilks the Abwehr.

Clash of Two Top Nazis.

Hitler’s Pipeline into Washington.

A Senator Helps a German Spy.

A Peculiar River Crossing.

Dame Fate Saves General Rommel.

Going in Style to a POW Camp.

Clanging Bells Rock Germany.

Did Prime Minister’s Mistress Influence Surrender?

Venus de Milo Fools Germans.

Part Two—The Allies’ Hours of Crises.

Mission: “Nazify” a Conquered Nation.

Curfew for Dutch Dogs and Ducks.

Wild Schemes for Saving England.

Curious Duel in British Skies.

A German Pilot’s Unlikely Captor.

The Royal Navy’s Invisible Ship.

Hitler’s Plot to Murder Franco.

A Cleaning Woman Foils Hitler.

The Battle of the Birds.

Roosevelt in a Shouting Match.

Democracy in a Battlefield Hospital.

Strange Means for Urgent Warning.

A Dedicated Blood-Bank Volunteer.

The Spymaster’s Peculiar Scheme.

A Pursuit of Bugs and Lice.

A Cantankerous Torpedo.

Curious Death of a German Bigwig.

Ernest Hemingway Stalks U-Boats.

Fluke Saves a British Fleet.

The War’s Craziest Wedding Scenario.

Two WACs on a Secret Mission.

Strange Place for Royal Jewels.

Part Three—The Tide Starts to Turn.

Navajo Code-Talkers Ignite Panic.

Adolf Hitler Plays Santa Claus.

Purple Heart Stripped from Sailor.

Saga of Top-Secret Maps.

Eisenhower Aide Helps Trick Germans.

The General’s Pants Go AWOL.

Mystery of the Vanishing Report.

Hostile Horsemen Chase Airplane.

A Dead Sergeant Walks Away.

A Tank Commander’s Close Call.

Espionage in the Vatican.

OSS Agent’s Hidden Bribes.

An Unlikely Spy Scores Coup.

Eisenhower Disclosure Stuns Reporters.

A Horrendous Bombing Error Pays Off.

Freak Encounter in No-Man’s-Land.

A Mule-Borne Commander.

The Captain Refused to Be Killed.

Two GIs Beat Patton to Goal.

“Prescriptions” for the Lady Spy.

Huge Bonus for a Jungle Spy.

“The Madame” Was a Secret Agent.

A Movie Fan on Bougainville.

A GI Carries His Eyeball.

Part Four—Beginning of the End.

An Odd Place for Spying.

Hitler’s “Creatures” at Anzio.

American Spymaster Shocks London.

Exciting Races on a Beachhead.

A Social Visit to the Enemy.

The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed.

Secret Agent Saved by a Blacksmith.

A Bomb Explodes Too Late.

An Ingenious Escape Artist.

A Prophetic German Cook.

Gods Smile on Teddy Roosevelt Jr.

“Don’t Worry . . . I’ll Shoot You First!”

An Enemy Saves “Father Sam”.

Firefighters Center of Attention.

The “Mess Sergeant” Was a Lady.

Massacre in the Wrong Village.

A General Turned Fire Chief.

The Great Soap Bubble Scheme.

A Triumph for Two OSS Men.

Four Newsmen Bag a German Platoon.

German Shoot-Out among Themselves.

Ordeal for Missing Identical Twins.

Parachute Pack Saves Trooper.

Drone Boats Go Berserk.

“Am I Having Hallucinations?”

A Doctor Captures a German Hospital.

A Colonel’s Unique “Uniform”.

Part Five—Allied Road to Victory.

Banzai Charge in a POW Camp.

A Nazi Zealot Obeys His Führer.

Miracle Saves Woman Spy’s Life.

The War’s Unexplained Mystery.

Dutch Boys Capture Nine Germans.

Luck Runs Out for the Blue Goose.

“Baby Patrol” in No-Man’s-Land.

Providence Saves a Polish Spy.

The Choirboys Plot to Doom Hitler.

“Kidnapping” a Thirty-Ton Tank.

A Hero “Resigns” from the Navy.

A Jeep Bonanza for “Scarface Otto”.

A Peculiar Reception Committee.

Hitler Humbles His Generals.

History Repeats for German Colonel.

A Jinxed Town in Belgium.

A Belgian Woman Halts the Panzers.

Hex by a Lieutenant’s Pal.

A Fluke Halts Eisenhower Trip.

A GI “Division” of Thieves.

The Miracle of Wiltz.

Unique Distinction for a Survivor.

Digging Up a Revered German Hero.

An Unlikely Battlefield Hero.

Part Six—A Shaky World Peace.

Amazing Scenario in Manila.

Death Stalks a Navy Pilot.

Shoot-Out at a Boxcar.

MacArthur Recaptures His Home.

Offering Up a Bonfire of Money.

A Tommy-Gunning Pilot.

Gods Smile on German General.

A Tail Gunner’s Miraculous Survival.

Curious Incident in a Command Post.

Hoax to Seize a Rhine Bridge.

Churchill “Consecrates” the Siegfried Line.

An Airman Dodges Certain Death.

Pilot’s Prayer Gets Results.

Glider Used as a Weapon.

His Masseur Coerces Himmler.

A Surrender-by-Telephone Tactic.

Kidnapping Polish Underground Leaders.

El Darbo’s Charmed Life.

Air Dogfight with Pistols.

Comic Opera in the Bavarian Alps.

Collaring a Nazi Bigwig.

Peculiar “Capture” of an SS Colonel.

Stalin’s Son in Strange Mission.

A Scheme to Blow Up Japan.

Odd Interlude on a Train.

A Soldier’s Thirty-Year War.

Notes and Sources.

Index.