Welcome to the wonderfully weird World War Two.
The Second World War was the bloodiest on record.
It was the first total war in history when civilians - men, women and children - were on the front line as never before.
With so many millions involved, the rumour machine went into overdrive, tall stories built on fear of the unknown.
With so much at stake, boffins battled with each other to build ever more bizarre weapons to outgun the enemy.
Nazi Germany alone had so many government-.
Blkdog Publishing Weird war two: strange facts and tales from the world's weirdest conflict, paperback/richard denham
