GI Ingenuity: Improvisation, Technology, and Winning World War II

by James Jay Carafano

Book Overview

One-of-a-kind retelling of the Normandy campaign Places the 1944 battle for France in its social, economic, scientific, and technological context

GI Ingenuity is in large part an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage. But the book goes farther, combining military history with the history of science, technology, and culture to show how the American soldier improvised, innovated, and adapted on the battlefield...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811734684
• ISBN13: 9780811734684
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"