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Title:GI Ingenuity : Improvisation, Technology & Winning WWII
Series:(Military History Series)
Author:James Jay Carafano
ISBN:0811734684 : 9780811734684
Illustrations:16 b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:262
Weight: .474 Kg.
Published:Stackpole Books - February 2008
List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:World history: Second World War: Military history: American history: History of engineering & technology: USA


Real Battles. Real Soldiers. Real Stories. "GI Ingenuity" is in large part an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at centre stage. The U.S. forces that fought in Normandy during the summer of 1944 met a battle-hardened German enemy and a forbidding landscape of earthen hedgerows, sunken roads, and thick bushes and trees. American GIs lacked the combat experience of their opponents but made up for it with their ability to innovate, adapt, improvise, and experiment on the battlefield, finding ingenious ways to blow through hedgerows and slam the Germans with massive firepower. Their innovations helped win World War II and transformed the American way of war.

Prologue: A Genius for War; Wrong War, Right War; Day of the Doughboys; The Innovation Revolution; D-Day Disasters; Trial and Error; The Air-Ground Miracle; An Imagining of Armor; The King of Battle; Warriors; Epilogue: Fantastic Voyage; Notes; Index.