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

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Editeur / Publisher : New York (N.Y.) : Random House , cop. 2013

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-1-400-06761-9

ISBN : 1-400-06761-8

ISBN : 0-8129-7939-7

ISBN : 978-0-8129-7939-8

EAN : 9781400067619

Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Génie militaire

Ingénieurs militaires -- Influence

Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Opérations militaires

Stratégie -- Influence

Classification Dewey : 940.54

Résumé / Abstract : "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