Jeep

By Rick Harper

Uncover The History! - Special Launch Price

Are you familiar with how and why the original Jeep was created? The Jeep brand has been around since right before the United States joined WWII. It was created in 1940 and then went into full-scale production for the US Allied forces in Europe.

The Army asked several carmakers for bids when an on-the-road wartime vehicle was needed. Only three carmakers responded. Willys-Overland was awarded the bid in July 1941 to produce 16,000 Jeeps. These Jeeps were to go to Russia and England because the US had not yet entered the war. When the United States did enter the war and used Jeep in mass, General George C. Marshall, US Army Chief of Staff during WWII, and later U.S. Secretary of State, described the Jeep Brand 4x4 as "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare."

This trivia book covers how the Jeep was conceived from the beginning origins of the Jeep up to what Jeep brings to the road today. A series of multiple-choice and true or false questions open each chapter, with the corresponding answers on the page after. A "Did You Know" portion consisting of interesting facts and stories closes each chapter, so you can depart that topic with a stronger connection to life of interesting facts about the Jeep brand we know today.

Let's see how much you know about Jeep's history! Get yours copy now!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955149097
• ISBN13: 9781955149099
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Bridge Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Jeep Trivia & Fun Facts

I did not like this book. The description was misleading. I thought it would get into more details, but it's written poorly and there is a lot of redundancy. Examples: Page 10: "So, when the bids went out to design and bid the Jeep, a barely known company called Bantam designed and organized a bid which with which (sic) Willys and Ford helped them." "which with which"? Where were the proofreaders? Page 11: There is a "bullet point" near the top of the page explaining Jeeps were modified to have snowplows, lay phone cable, and used as ambulances. There is another bullet point near the bottom of the same page that mentions "It was also widely modified for ....snowplowing, telephone cable laying, and....field ambulance..." Really, you had to state that twice on the same page? And the monotony keeps going......