GI Ingenuity: Improvisation, Technology and Winning World War II - Brossura

Carafano, James Jay

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811734684 ISBN 13: 9780811734684

Casa editrice: Stackpole Books, 2007

Riassunto

Uses the battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944 to discuss how the U.S. Army used their ability to improvise, innovate, and adapt technology on the battlefield to create a postmodern military.

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L'autore:

James Jay Carafano, a retired army lieutenant colonel, has taught at West Point, the Naval War College, National Defense University, and Georgetown. He lives near Washington, DC.

Product Description:

Real Battles. Real Soldiers. Real Stories. "GI Ingenuity" is in large part an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at centre stage. The U.S. forces that fought in Normandy during the summer of 1944 met a battle-hardened German enemy and a forbidding landscape of earthen hedgerows, sunken roads, and thick bushes and trees. American GIs lacked the combat experience of their opponents but made up for it with their ability to innovate, adapt, improvise, and experiment on the battlefield, finding ingenious ways to blow through hedgerows and slam the Germans with massive firepower. Their innovations helped win World War II and transformed the American way of war.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stackpole Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811734684
• ISBN 13: 9780811734684
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 263