Includes index

The Fall of France: "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" -- Wednesday, September 4, 1940, A Cabinet Meeting in the Bunker -- Secret Services: Liverpool and the Western Approaches Command Center -- FDR'S Undeclared War -- Secret Mission to Singapore -- Fall of the "Gibraltar of the East" -- From Sea to Shining Sea--The Unknown Odyssey of the SS America/USS West Point -- Bletchley Park: The Secret War -- U-Boat Sanctuary -- Inside the Lion's Den -- Launching the Invasion: Southwick House and D-Day -- The Band of Brothers -- Air Force Pilot, Hero, and Movie Star--Jimmy Stewart and the Need to Fly -- The US Army Air Force in Europe -- "Little America"--Patriotism and Production Built the British Bases -- Sacrifice and Heromsim: Attacking the Heart of Germany -- Living the History--The Bases Where It Began -- A Boy on the Fence -- The Norden Bombsight and the Myth of Strategic Bombing -- Trent Park Tattletales -- The Arsenal of Democracy -- Remains of the Reich: Intact Traces in Unexpected Places

"In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military historians for decades. With historical photos, contemporary photos, and written in a conversational style, the book opens the eyes of a new generation of readers, as well as an older generation, and takes them to the actual locations that changed history. Many military history readers don't know that you can still visit Nazi U-boat pens in Lorient and La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast (they were used in the filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark) and even pieces of the Atlantic Wall Hitler had built along the French coast in '43 and '44 to thwart the invasion he knew was coming. These are only two of the many hidden places the author introduces the reader to."--Provided by publisher