Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology Paperback – Illustrated, August 9, 2007

Delivery from Goodwill of Silicon Valley Wonderful, book in like new condition, quick & careful packaging, reasonable price. "Hitler's Suppressed . . . Weapons" simply excellent volume on suppressed and mostly missing technology from Nazi times. Lots of diagrams, some footnotes, not extensive but wide-ranging. Highly recommended!

A brief compendium of Nazi black weapons, science and technology secrets.Mr. Henry Stevens' primer on Nazi black weapons, science and technology secrets is a quick read. He covers a lot of ground in short, superficial chapters that averaged about 8 pages per individual topic. Most of what Mr. Stevens discusses has been covered before in more definitive fashion. In particular I recommend Nick Cook's The Hunt for Zero Point (excellent), David Porter's Hitler's Secret Weapons: 1933-1945 (Outstanding), and Geoffrey Thomas' KG 200 The Luftwaffe's Most Secret Unit (Outstanding). There are others but these will pretty much cover the Nazi black weapons operation in definitive depth.Mr. Stevens' book is a good primer on the secret world of Nazi black weapons. Generally it is superficially accurate although his documentation is weak and spotty. More definitive footnoting or endnotes with a good, solid bibliography would have given this book more gravitas. The brief chapters gives the reader a smattering of the complex nature of Hitler's large black weapon research and operations. One can quickly see quite a lot was going on before and during the war in regards to Nazi secret weapons, science, and technology. Fortunately for the Allies, during most of the war Hitler's black ops was too decentralized and scattered to be effective. Finally in late 1943, the mysterious SS General Dr. Hans Kammler took charge of the Hitler's black weapons ops and the program exploded resulting in a plethora of new weapons, science and technology. Still, operating at max capacity and peak efficiency it was too little too late to save Hitler and Germany from unconditional defeat.Hitler's bragged that his "Wunder Weapons" would turn his Reich's defeat into victory. They did not. But, the Allies realized their importance in a changing world and raced to bag as many of the Nazi scientists and weapons as they could resulting in a whole new world of Allied Black Operations. Mr. Stevens' superficial book highlights this and pounds home the importance of what German weapon advancement, science and technology accomplished during WW2 and how it affects what we see and do today.I recommend this as a superficial primer only. Good as a general overview of what Germany was doing in the world of black operations in regards to secret weapons, science, and technology. For a more definitive exploration of this subject see the other books I outlined in this review.

This book is an outstanding bit of research, I also liked how it was written and architected. It is broken up into easily understandable parts and the author does his best to break complex ideas into understandable practical application.I am not sure what books the other reviewers have read that are more "thorough" than this one. The writer does not lapse into insane conspiracy theories nor does he make any claims that he cannot back up without reasonable historical reference. If he does site theory that is inconsistent with the history or proof he says so.This book is a much, much easier read than the other Nazi weapson/history books. It is also grounded in reality which makes it a bit more scary and DOes in fact make me wonder what our government did with all of the information they culled from the Axis powers at the end of WWII.The only part of this book that I would like to see expanded is the discussion around the impacts of this technology on every day life. Clearly many of the ideas the Germans were working on migrated from Germany to the US and Russia. Are many of those secrets still waiting to wander out of Pandoras box today?Could any of the Nazi Technologies actually be used to help the world (such as alternative energy technologies)? What every happened to the U-boat that made it to South America after the war?Hopefully the author will write another book that explores new findings and paints a picture of how the Germans continue to effect the world.Unfortunately it seems like the most used items that came from the Nazis still seems to be torture technique. Hopefully the world will learn from their evil.

A previous reviewer who slammed this book for being "conspiracy-laden" stated that there were better books available on Nazi secret weaponry. He doesn't name the book titles for us. He can't, because none exist. IMO,Henry Stevens has done enough research to prove his general case, and also does a good job in showing how the Freedom of Information Act is nothing less than a cynical manipulation to prolong cover-ups, delay transparency, and forestall accountability. My main criticism of the book would be that each chapter deserves a separate book in its own right. I can only assume that the author wanted to cram as much information into a 330 page paperback as he possibly could do. Some of the claims are perhaps too speculative in nature for most readers to accept, for example, that the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan originally belonged to the Nazis and were captured from them. Nevertheless, I suspect that a great deal of the book's content will resonate those who are skeptical of officialdom. The obvious question that arises is..why did we go to war in the first place? Was it really motivated by idealism, or was it to get our hands on the Nazi scientists and their technology?

I'm too hard on Henry Stevens. He does get ridiculed for his reserach, which is just absurd at times. An aging-weapon is so obviously not within the scope of what anyone can talk about with any degree of credibilty.And yet, Stevens does. His research led him in that direction and he didn't stop until he found the source for that 'story' and then published it. It really does only serve to discredit the things that they actually did have, provable things that are well documented since the reunification of Germany.In a sense, this book is itself a Nazi weapon. Psychological Warfare can be so insidious.Beware. But keep your mind and heart, open.