PDF-(READ)-Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World

Paul Kennedy awardwinning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of todays most renowned historians now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won The Turn of the Tide is a fascinating nutsandbolts 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 successIn 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 mainland and to end Japans imperialism Astonishingly a little over a year later these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished With riveting tactical detail The Turn of the Tide reveals howKennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron a miniature radar as small as a soup plate and the Hedgehog a multiheaded grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic the critical decision by engineers to install a supercharged RollsRoyce engine in the P51 Mustang creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffes 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 highflying and inaccessible B29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on JapanThe 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 The Turn of the Tide has another claim to our attention for it restores the middle level of war to its rightful place in historyFrom the Hardcover edition. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 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