Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy (Jan 29, 2013)
From a review
This is a very good book, but not the book the title suggests. The title suggests that the book focusses on the engineering achievements that contributed to winning WWII, whereas in fact, the book is actually a history of the strategies that won the war. Whoever created the title deserves a dope-slap. “Engineering” has two meanings, (a) the most common meaning: the development of a device, like engineering a new machine gun; and (b) the less common meaning: a means to achieve an objective, like engineering a way to get Johnnie accepted into the college of his choice. Both meanings of the word contributed mightily to success in WWII, but the book only deals with the “scheme” meaning of the word (it mentions the tremendous contributions of new equipment developed during the war, but does not go into the engineering details thereof; rather, equipment developments are discussed as how they contributed to strategies). Therefore, use of the “engineering” in the title is extremely misleading.
Great book Bush should have taken there advice..
Stay out with ground troops..let them do the fighting,…use special forces and cia small groups of people to help them..they have been fighting for hundreds of years..
In the author’s defense, the title is often changed by the editor at the publishing house.
Looks like an interesting book though. I see he used a lot of secondary histories in his work and not much in the way of primary material.