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_a9780275986988 (hbk.) : _c44.95 USD |
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_aGI ingenuity : _bimprovisation, technology, and winning World War II / _cJames Jay Carafano. |
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_aWestport, Conn. : _bPraeger Security International, _c2006. |
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300 | _axx, 262 pages : ill. ; 25 cm. | ||
440 | _aWar, technology, and history. | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index. | ||
520 | _aGI 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. | ||
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_aUNITED STATES _xSOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS _xHISTORY _x20TH CENTURY |
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_aWORLD WAR, 1939-1945 _xTECHNOLOGY |
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_aSOLDIERS _xUNITED STATES _xINTELLECTUAL LIFE _x20TH CENTURY |
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