The strangest battle of World War II took place at this medieval Austrian castle

[boingboing]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/11/10/the-strangest-battle-of-world.html

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[peregrinus_bis]

Awesome book on this: “The Last Battle” - amazing read. In times of crisis, some people selflessly work to help those under siege.

[renke]

if you prefer reading: the WP article about the battle is informative

[Prentiz]

I came to recommend exactly this book - it’s written by Stephen Harding and is really rather good.

[peregrinus_bis]

He writes 'em up well!

[adonai]

I was expecting it to be about BJ Blascowicz’s escape…