The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Forgotten War Heroes Who Changed The World - The Fat Electrician - #1165

Modern Wisdom, 19 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 18 min in.

The speaker, likely the host, says they were a fan of the book and its audiobook, praising the narrator's evocative 1940s British accent. They recount at length a specific passage: British wartime engineers used aniseed balls as reliable dissolving timers for limpet mines, protected by condoms to keep them dry from humidity. The book notes in a parenthetical that buying up all nearby pharmacy condom stocks may have caused a spike in local births nine months later.

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