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Title:
Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War / Paul Kennedy.
ISBN:
9781400067619
Personal Author:
Kennedy, Paul M., 1945-
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [2013]

©2013
Physical Description:
xxvi, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
How to get convoys safely across the Atlantic -- How to win command of the air -- How to stop a blitzkrieg -- How to seize an enemy-held shore -- How to defeat the "tyranny of distance" -- Conclusion: problem solving in history
Summary:
"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang"; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping barrage".
Geographic Term:
Germany -- Armed Forces -- Organization

Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Subject Term:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns

World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations

Naval convoys--Atlantic Ocean -- History 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations

Bombing, Aerial -- History 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations

Amphibious warfare -- History 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns--Pacific Area
OCLC Number:
ocn299708282
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