The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy

"War is hell," but the stories it generates can be most entertaining. Rick Beyer, an award-winning History Channel producer, has collected scores of war stories that never made it into great generals' memoirs. The true tales reveal how a topless dancer once saved Rome; how the shooting of a pig almost started a war between the U.S. and Great Britain; how the Mafia helped win World War II; and how the United States Air Force attacked North Carolina with two nuclear bombs.