The most difficult and bloody war in the history of mankind - World War II - left us with many unsolved secrets and mysteries. Among them: the fight 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, secret ship disasters and the loss of artistic treasures... Exploits of intelligence officers and assassination attempts on leaders and commanders , the heroism of underground fighters and partisans and the meanness of collaborators, the pursuit of the latest models of technology and the strange actions of politicians, propaganda campaigns and financial sabotage... All this is fascinatingly narrated on the pages of the new book from the “100 Greats” series.