Secret Soldiers
by By Gerard, Philip
Category: History , Military , World War II

Profiles the virtually unknown 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, an elite, thousand-man "ghost army" consisting of a group of American artists, designers, writers, and electronics and sound engineers--including fashion tycoon Bill Blass, painter Ellsworth Kelly, and artist Hal Laynor--that helped win the Battle of Europe by creating a series of extraordinary battlefield deceptions to fool the German high command. Reprint.