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Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War / Paul Kennedy. |
| Authors: | Kennedy, Paul M., 1945- |
| Call number: | 940.54 KEN |
| Publisher: | New York : Random House, c2013. |
| Publication date: | c2013. |
| Subject: |
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. Germany -- Armed Forces -- Organization. Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945. |
| Title: | Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War / Paul Kennedy. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xxvi, 436 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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 note: | "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". |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-416) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400067619 (alk. paper) : 1400067618 (alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2012024284 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1412733 |
| Bib No.: | 1412733 |
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