by Henry Stevens
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 Good for scratching that conspiracy theory itch, 2008-09-09
While some people may have negative reviews of this book, I can empathise a little, sure this book does not provide empirical evidence of what really happened in the Third Reich. It does provide some glimpses at possibilities and does it's best in citing sources that may give some credibility. It simply presents what little information there is available on some incredible ideas.
Of course some readers may be annoyed that their appetite has been whetted with nothing to follow through with. It's hard to rule out the possibilities that the book suggests, since these things could have certainly been destroyed or hidden.
If what this book is true, then it paints a picture of a Germany that could have won the war through technological superiority if it were not for the inexperience and instability by Hitler in a military capacity.
I'd definitely recommend this book to others.
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confusing, 2008-09-06
A lot of disconnected information in one book. I had to look at each chapter as a new item. Got to be too much information to handle in successive sittings. A book which I will return to after allowing some of the info to process a while.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 A kind of fairy tale, 2008-08-24
Reading this book it's like if you were reading a kind of fairy tale.
All seems so simple, so ingenuous, that you are leaved with the sense that the Allies were stupid.
Besides, there are 2 or 3 pages for each "secret weapon", which means that the author decided to give the readers a very light treatment of the issues he dealt with.
And above all, no matter how objective you want to be, no one can separate the production of some of those weapons from the horrors of the holocaust and the enslaving of thousands of prisoners of war, to work until dying, for the sake of the Nazi regime.
All in all, if you really want to know something about the presumably secret weapons the Germans could have developed during WWII, this is not your book. Look for something with sober and better information.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Why did we go to war........against the Nazis?, 2008-08-22
A previous reviewer who slammed this book for being "conspiracy-laden" stated that there were better books available on Nazi secret weaponry. He doesn't name the book titles for us. He can't, because none exist. IMO,Henry Stevens has done enough research to prove his general case, and also does a good job in showing how the Freedom of Information Act is nothing less than a cynical manipulation to prolong cover-ups, delay transparency, and forestall accountability. My main criticism of the book would be that each chapter deserves a separate book in its own right. I can only assume that the author wanted to cram as much information into a 330 page paperback as he possibly could do. Some of the claims are perhaps too speculative in nature for most readers to accept, for example, that the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan originally belonged to the Nazis and were captured from them. Nevertheless, I suspect that a great deal of the book's content will resonate those who are skeptical of officialdom. The obvious question that arises is..why did we go to war in the first place? Was it really motivated by idealism, or was it to get our hands on the Nazi scientists and their technology?
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Outstanding Book, Highly Recommended, 2008-06-29
This book is an outstanding bit of research, I also liked how it was written and architected. It is broken up into easily understandable parts and the author does his best to break complex ideas into understandable practical application.
I am not sure what books the other reviewers have read that are more "thorough" than this one. The writer does not lapse into insane conspiracy theories nor does he make any claims that he cannot back up without reasonable historical reference. If he does site theory that is inconsistent with the history or proof he says so.
This book is a much, much easier read than the other Nazi weapson/history books. It is also grounded in reality which makes it a bit more scary and DOes in fact make me wonder what our government did with all of the information they culled from the Axis powers at the end of WWII.
The only part of this book that I would like to see expanded is the discussion around the impacts of this technology on every day life. Clearly many of the ideas the Germans were working on migrated from Germany to the US and Russia. Are many of those secrets still waiting to wander out of Pandoras box today?
Could any of the Nazi Technologies actually be used to help the world (such as alternative energy technologies)? What every happened to the U-boat that made it to South America after the war?
Hopefully the author will write another book that explores new findings and paints a picture of how the Germans continue to effect the world.
Unfortunately it seems like the most used items that came from the Nazis still seems to be torture technique. Hopefully the world will learn from their evil.
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