CARAFANO James Jay

GI ingenuity : improvisation, technology, and winning World War II / James Jay Carafano. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006. - xx, 262 pages : ill. ; 25 cm. - War, technology, and history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.

GI Ingenuity is in large part an old-fashioned combat history, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage. It tells the story of death and destruction on the killing fields of Normandy, as well as on the battlegrounds that provide the prologue and postscript to the transformation of war in France in 1944.

9780275986988 (hbk.) : 44.95 USD


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