2023, book 11: The war magician: how Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang altered the course World War II, David Fisher

Things I want to learn more about:

Desert training for troops in Germany:

[...] since 1936 the Nazis had been training officers for an elite desert army inside two huge hothouses in the distrcit of Schleswig-Holstein in the north and in Bavaria in the south. The soliders live inside these buildings under desert conditions for weeks at a time. They ate desert rations, drilled in breath-sucking heat, slept in bone-chilling cold and trained on a sand-covered floor.

Part of the supernatural nonsense Himmler (and Hess) were into:

[Himmler] supported an expedition to Tibet to search for the fossilized remains of giants.

The bit about Rommel spending the night in a British camp seems particularly sketchy:

By the end of the day the situation was so hopelessly confused that 13th Corps briefly battled its own friendly forces. A British military policeman at a desert crossroads found himself directing German traffic. Late in the afternoon 7th Armored [sic] was drawing supplies at the south end of a depot while enemy troops were replenishing at the northern end.

The commanders were just as mixed up as their troops. General Cunningham was almost captured while visiting 30th Corps, and his plane was shelled as it took off. Rommel's staff car broke down and he hitched a ride with General Crüwell in a captured British armored car. The driver got lost and drove into a British camp, where the generals quietly spent the night. (p. 174)

The British military using chambers inside the pyramids—again, seems sketchy:

He was alone [inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid], although he could hear the electronic buzz of Eighth Army's headquarters communications center at work in a nearby chamber. (p. 312)