Engineering Hitler's downfall : the brains that enabled victory
Roberts, Gwilym2018
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'Engineering Hitler's Downfall' features numerous inventions such as the decoding machines developed at Bletchley Park; the hand-held mine detectors that cleared pathways through enemy minefields, firstly at the Battle of el Alamein but also in most subsequent actions; the newly-located factories and tanks that enabled the Russians to repulse the German invasion; the escort carriers and long range aircraft that enabled U-boats to be attacked in the mid-Atlantic; the 4000 plus Bailey bridges that allowed narrow ravines and rivers as wide as the Rhine to be crossed; the Mulberry harbours through which the D-Day bridgehead was reinforced and supplied and the pipelines under the ocean that supplied fuel for invading troops. These and many other examples illustrate what was achieved under such immense pressure.
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Engineering Hitler's downfall : the brains that enabled victory / Gwilym Roberts.
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Dunbeath, Caithness : Whittles Publishing, 2018.
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224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781849953863 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'4940.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
2673888
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