Did you know that there was a battle in Europe just after the war, that Churchill allowed a terrible famine in India or that there were Jews in the Gestapo? Or that many of the things you have in your kitchen originated in that conflict? Learn these and other surprising stories, in an entertaining and rigorous view of the 1939-1945 conflict.

Did you know that there was a battle in Europe just after the war, that Churchill allowed a terrible famine in India or that there were Jews in the Gestapo? Or that many of the things you have in your kitchen originated in that conflict? Learn these and other surprising stories, in an entertaining and rigorous view of the 1939-1945 conflict.

When it seems that everything has already been written about the 1939-1945 conflict, the historian and journalist Jesús Hernández shows us that this is not the case with That Was Not in My Book on World War II. In this entertaining work, the author accepts the challenge of surprising the reader with episodes that, for sure, he will not find in his history books.

Whoever approaches these pages will be able to discover the sophisticated tricks that the Soviets devised to deceive the Germans or the epic American efforts to achieve something as prosaic as supplying books to their soldiers. He will also learn about the most prolific executioner in history, and some Spaniards who had their unexpected role, such as the engineer who could have saved thousands of lives in London, or the Republicans to whom Stalin would entrust an important secret mission. Here he will read, for the first time, that India also had its own Nuremberg trial, or that the Japanese resorted to local mafias to take over the British colony of Hong Kong.
This work contains topics that, because of the discomfort they cause, are avoided in books about the conflict, such as the thousands of Allied soldiers who died as victims of friendly fire, the discrimination against black soldiers in the American army or the Jews who actively collaborated with the Nazis in the extermination of their own people.
The reader will also be surprised to learn that in their daily lives they can find quite a few articles and foods that were created thanks to the Second World War: from aluminum foil and cling film to concentrated orange juice, including energy bars or fried corn snacks.
In addition, the author includes a chapter with 111 curious facts about the war, as well as 10 questionnaires that will test the knowledge of even the most knowledgeable reader. All of this makes reading this informative work an experience that is as surprising as it is enriching.