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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
The Secret War 1939-45 by Gerald Pawle (1913-1991) with an introduction by Nevil Shute {Norway}
I found e-book downloads of this while Googling for uses of 'equipment' in the plural for a thread elsewhere.
https://archive.org/details/secretwar193945007234mbp
First published in 1957, it was reprinted by Nabu Press (September 16, 2011)
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-193...dp/1245668463/
Which has a hilarious note "This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections ..."
It's about the weird and strange inventions that appeared out of times of hardship during WW2 some of which even worked!
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Funny, and a nice find.
Little.Egret's post reminded me of a bit of information that people might not be aware of, but might find helpful.
Some people may not realize that the IA (Internet Archive) has a huge number of works from 1923 and after, as well as pre-1923 (1923 being the big date in U.S. copyright law, for reasons that I won't get into here) works. I think that I am correct with these numbers: there are a little over 12.5 million works of all publication dates in the IA. There are about 5 million works from 1923 and after. That's a little over 1/3!
If you ever want to search only 1923 stuff, which all or almost all is in the public domain
in the United States (ymmv in other countries), you can do it by doing a regular "advanced search." You want to insert in the appropriate place that you want to search from 01/01/1923 to the date of the day that you are doing the searching or some date in the future. Viola, you get only 1923-to-now stuff from the search.
I don't know why there is so much stuff in the IA from 1923 till now. I haven't looked into that. I suspect that many times the copyright holders have (graciously) approved IA's use of it. In other instances, I'm sure that the works never were copyrighted in the first place or that explicit permission was given in the works for them to be freely used for one purpose or another or in one situation or another.
Unfortunately, there is not, to my knowledge, a simple and easy way to do a search by subject in IA, including in the results from the search that you do above. However, there are all kinds of other options, both within the search commands area and through some links on the right hand side of the search results webpage.