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Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War / Paul Kennedy.
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- ISBN: 9781400067619 (alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 1400067618 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxvi, 436 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2013.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-416) and index. |
| Formatted 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, etc.: | "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". |
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