Monographie

Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War / Paul Kennedy

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War / Paul Kennedy
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • New York (N.Y.) : Random House, cop. 2013
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XXVI-436 p.-[16] p. de pl.) : ill., cartes ; 25 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-400-06761-9
  • 1-400-06761-8
  • 0-8129-7939-7
  • 978-0-8129-7939-8
EAN
  • 9781400067619 rel.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 940.542
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [407]-416. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • 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
Résumé ou extrait
  • "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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