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(0)Paul Kennedy
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
“A brilliant and gripping book by a master historian working at the top of his powers.”—Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University
“Paul Kennedy has written a classic in this sweeping narrative account of the desperate struggle to command the seas and America’s rise as a superpower during the Second...
“A brilliant and gripping book by a master historian working at the top of his powers.”—Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University
“Paul Kennedy has written a classic in this sweeping narrative account of the desperate struggle to command the seas and America’s rise as a superpower during the Second...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers : Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches ; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang" ; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Scholar Kennedy gives a thorough history of the United Nations that explains the institution's roots and functions while also casting an eye on the UN's effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting coming challenges. He makes sense of the commissions and committees, and how the six main operating bodies operate and interact. Citing examples from history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council on numerous...