Date : 2013
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
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