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Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers in WWII - Hardcover by Paul Kennedy
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- ISBN
- 9781400067619
- Book Title
- Engineers of Victory : the Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Military / Naval, International Relations / General, Military / Aviation, Marine & Naval
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 28 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today's most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders' grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders' visions of success. In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablanca and established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainl∧ and to end Japan's imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail, Engineers of Victory reveals how. Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron, a miniature radar "as small as a soup plate," and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision by engineers to install a super-charged Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang, creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffe's; and the innovative use of pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung together) to help Russian troops cross rivers and elude the Nazi blitzkrieg. He takes readers behind the scenes, unveiling exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off the invasion of Normandy, and illuminating how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on Japan. The story of World War II is often told as a grand narrative, as if it were fought by supermen or decided by fate. Here Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics, and organizational decisions that made the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality. In an even more significant way, Engineers of Victory has another claim to our attention, for it restores "the middle level of war" to its rightful place in history. Praise for Engineers of Victory "Superbly written and carefully documented . . . indispensable reading for anyone who seeks to understand how and why the Allies won." --The Christian Science Monitor "An important contribution to our understanding of World War II . . . Like an engineer who pries open a pocket watch to reveal its inner mechanics, [Paul] Kennedy tells how little-known men and women at lower levels helped win the war." --Michael Beschloss, The New York Times Book Review "Histories of World War II tend to concentrate on the leaders and generals at the top who make the big strategic decisions and on the lowly grunts at the bottom. . . . [ Engineers of Victory ] seeks to fill this gap in the historiography of World War II and does so triumphantly. . . . This book is a fine tribute." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Kennedy] colorfully and convincingly illustrates the ingenuity and persistence of a few men who made all the difference." -- The Washington Post "This superb book is Kennedy's best." --Foreign Affairs
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400067618
ISBN-13
9781400067619
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71892845
Product Key Features
Book Title
Engineers of Victory : the Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Military / Naval, International Relations / General, Military / Aviation, Marine & Naval
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
28 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D743.K425 2013
Reviews
"Superbly written and carefully documented . . . indispensable reading for anyone who seeks to understand how and why the Allies won." --The Christian Science Monitor "An important contribution to our understanding of World War II . . . Like an engineer who pries open a pocket watch to reveal its inner mechanics, [Paul] Kennedy tells how little-known men and women at lower levels helped win the war." --Michael Beschloss, The New York Times Book Review "Histories of World War II tend to concentrate on the leaders and generals at the top who make the big strategic decisions and on the lowly grunts at the bottom. . . . [ Engineers of Victory ] seeks to fill this gap in the historiography of World War II and does so triumphantly. . . . This book is a fine tribute." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Kennedy] colorfully and convincingly illustrates the ingenuity and persistence of a few men who made all the difference." -- The Washington Post "Kennedy has produced a fresh perspective on the war, giving us not just another history of an overfamiliar conflict, but a manual of technical problem-solving, written in the clearest and most compelling style, that could still prove useful to modern management today." -- The Telegraph (UK) "This superb book is Kennedy's best." --Foreign Affairs "Paul Kennedy . . . has thus achieved a notable feat in bringing a large dose of common sense, historical insight and detailed knowledge to bear in his refreshing study of what might be called the material history of the second world war. . . . This material history of strategy asks the right questions, disposes of clichés and gives rich accounts of neglected topics." -- Financial Times "Paul Kennedy's history of World War II is a demonstration not only of incisive analysis and mastery of subject, but of profound integrity, and a historian's desire to celebrate not great leaders but the forgotten scientists, technicians, and logisticians who gave us the tactical edge, without which the strategic designs could never have been achieved." --Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography "Kennedy's fine-grained analysis and suspicion of any one single cause--like cipher cracking, intelligence and deception operations, or specific weapons systems, like the Soviet T-34 tank--permit him to persuasively array his supporting facts. . . . An absorbing new approach to a well-worked field." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A fresh and stimulating approach." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty-first Century "A tour de force, required reading for anyone who wants to take the measure of twenty-first-century realities." -The New York Times Book Review "Full of insight and perspective, and the balanced cadences of [Kennedy's] prose are a pleasure to read." - Newsday "Provocative . . . The insights and penetrating analyses are a valuable help in understanding more deeply the forces of change."- The Christian Science Monitor "Kennedy's view is panoramic, and he wields it masterfully. . . . What is involved is nothing less than everyone's future on Earth."- St. Louis Post-Dispatch " Preparing for the Twenty-first Century has all the virtues that made The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers such a success. Its reach is global, and the questions it asks are large and pressing."- The New York Review of Book s, "Superbly written and carefully documented . . . indispensable reading for anyone who seeks to understand how and why the Allies won." -The Christian Science Monitor "An important contribution to our understanding of World War II . . . Like an engineer who pries open a pocket watch to reveal its inner mechanics, [Paul] Kennedy tells how little-known men and women at lower levels helped win the war." -Michael Beschloss, The New York Times Book Review "Histories of World War II tend to concentrate on the leaders and generals at the top who make the big strategic decisions and on the lowly grunts at the bottom. . . . [ Engineers of Victory ] seeks to fill this gap in the historiography of World War II and does so triumphantly. . . . This book is a fine tribute." - The Wall Street Journal "[Kennedy] colorfully and convincingly illustrates the ingenuity and persistence of a few men who made all the difference." - The Washington Post "Kennedy has produced a fresh perspective on the war, giving us not just another history of an overfamiliar conflict, but a manual of technical problem-solving, written in the clearest and most compelling style, that could still prove useful to modern management today." - The Telegraph (UK) "This superb book is Kennedy's best." -Foreign Affairs "Paul Kennedy . . . has thus achieved a notable feat in bringing a large dose of common sense, historical insight and detailed knowledge to bear in his refreshing study of what might be called the material history of the second world war. . . . This material history of strategy asks the right questions, disposes of clichés and gives rich accounts of neglected topics." - Financial Times "Paul Kennedy's history of World War II is a demonstration not only of incisive analysis and mastery of subject, but of profound integrity, and a historian's desire to celebrate not great leaders but the forgotten scientists, technicians, and logisticians who gave us the tactical edge, without which the strategic designs could never have been achieved." -Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography "Kennedy's fine-grained analysis and suspicion of any one single cause-like cipher cracking, intelligence and deception operations, or specific weapons systems, like the Soviet T-34 tank-permit him to persuasively array his supporting facts. . . . An absorbing new approach to a well-worked field." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A fresh and stimulating approach." - Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition., Advance praise for Engineers of Victory "Paul Kennedy's history of World War II is a demonstration not only of incisive analysis and mastery of subject, but of profound integrity, and a historian's desire to celebrate not great leaders but the forgotten scientists, technicians, and logisticians who gave us the tactical edge, without which the strategic designs could never have been achieved."-Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography "Kennedy's fine-grained analysis and suspicion of any one single cause-like cipher cracking, intelligence and deception operations, or specific weapons systems, like the Soviet T-34 tank-permit him to persuasively array his supporting facts. . . . An absorbing new approach to a well-worked field."- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A fresh and stimulating approach."- Publishers Weekly
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-024284
Dewey Decimal
940.54
Dewey Edition
23
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