Description
This compelling account of World War II examines the practical innovations, logistical breakthroughs, and strategic decisions that transformed Allied ambitions into victory. Focusing on the crucial middle years of the conflict, it reveals how engineers, scientists, military planners, civilian specialists, and institutions solved seemingly intractable problems across the air, land, and sea. Rather than offering only a story of grand commanders and sweeping campaigns, the book highlights the often-overlooked people and systems that made success possible. Insightful and richly detailed, it presents victory as the result of collaboration, technical ingenuity, and disciplined execution as much as battlefield courage.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2013
572 pages
ISBN: 9781846147289
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy.