You gotta love a book that starts its concluding paragraph with "Does our government keep files of German technology to this day? I certainly thinkl so. In fact, I think there is a whole history of World War Two German scientific and technical development that has been kept from us."

That tells you the tenor of the book (ok, that and the list of books by the publisher in the back of the book - Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth, Ether Technology, Saucers of the Illumanati to name a few!)I don't mean to totally denigrate the book but like you tell your kids, you're judged by the company you keep!

Stevens uses a lot of primary source materials (documents of the period, interviews, and so on) to make his arguments. I have to admit, a number of them are convincing and the rest of them make you tilt your head and go "Hmmm..."

In the "I think he might be right" category is the claim that the Germans exploded a couple of test nuclear weapons and failed to use them because they did not have the delivery means necssary to carry such large payloads, and the war ended too soon for them to produce them when needed. Another is the claim that the Germans had developed the theory behind fuel-air explosives andhad them under development when the war ended.

So what neat things can you use from the book for your Weird Wars? The nukes have been mentioned. How about scenarios surrounding the need to steal a synthetic blood formula, or the development of a third type of V rocket with greater range and payload? Or how about Death Rays (gamma ray weapons) and lasers? Or maybe you'd like something more prosaic like synthetic penicillin or nutritional programs to enhance performance and strength? These are all in there.

One of his more intriguing claims is that if a secret was known to more than one of the WW2 Allies, the science was generally shared. If only one Allied power came across a technology, then the power kept it to themselves. What are some examples of this? Stevens claims that synthetic oil is one. Developed by a US company in 1975, Stevens claims that this technology had been in use by the Germans in WW2 andhad been given to the company by the government.

Worth a look for all buddingscenario developers!