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020 _a9780275986988 (hbk.) :
_c44.95 USD
100 1 _aCARAFANO James Jay
245 _aGI ingenuity :
_bimprovisation, technology, and winning World War II /
_cJames Jay Carafano.
260 _aWestport, Conn. :
_bPraeger Security International,
_c2006.
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.
650 _aUNITED STATES
_xSOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
_xHISTORY
_x20TH CENTURY
650 _aWORLD WAR, 1939-1945
_xTECHNOLOGY
650 _aSOLDIERS
_xUNITED STATES
_xINTELLECTUAL LIFE
_x20TH CENTURY
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_sY
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