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100 1 $aKennedy, Paul M.,$d1945-$eauthor.
245 10 $aEngineers of victory :$bthe problem solvers who turned the tide in the Second World War /$cPaul Kennedy.
264 1 $aLondon :$bPenguin Books,$c2014.
300 $axxvi, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aOriginally published: New York: Random House, 2013.
505 00 $tHow to get convoys safely across the Atlantic --$tHow to win command of the air --$tHow to stop a blitzkrieg --$tHow to seize an enemy-held shore --$tHow to defeat the "tyranny of distance" --$tConclusion: problem solving in history.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 407-416) and index.
520 $aAn account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. It focuses 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.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations.
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647 7 $aWorld War$d(1939-1945)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01180924
648 7 $a1939-1945$2fast
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