The series, "Mighty Machines" examines the most interesting big machines people use to carry out larger-than-life tasks. Readers of this book will learn about the mechanisms and uses of these big machines. The book if filled with vivid photos and fascinating facts, this series is sure to engage young readers.

It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.