Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War /
"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 Li...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2013], ©2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 How to Get Convoys Safely Across the Atlantic
- 2. How to Win Command of the Air
- 3. How to Stop a Blitzkrieg
- 4. How to Seize an Enemy-Held Shore
- 5. How to Defeat the "Tyranny of Distance".
- 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