03294cam a2200469 4500 1669172555 TxAuBib 20241023120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616894528 1616894520 B00WYJL0O0 Amazon f77ccd9e-d7c7-4658-96df-209622958c8c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2204134 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Beyer, Rick. The Ghost Army of World War II [Libby] : How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery. Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. Normandy. world war 2 books. ww2 books. World War 2 history. D Day book. ww2 history books. ww2 historical nonfiction. ghost army book. ghost army of wwii. ghost army of wwii book. world war 2 books history. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 26MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:The Ghost Army of World War II describes a perfect example of a little-known, highly imaginative, and daring maneuver that helped open the way for the final drive to Germany. It is a riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way—ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously. – Tom Brokaw<br /> In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a massive collection of sound-effects records, and more than a few tricks up their sleeves, their job was to create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience.<br /> From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to fool the enemy about the strength and location of American units. Between missions the artists filled their duffel bags with drawings and paintings and dragged them across Europe. Every move they made was top secret and their story was hushed up for decades after the war's end. The Ghost Army of World War II is the first publication to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-10-22 20:00:03. Sayles, Elizabeth. https://samples.overdrive.com/ghost-army-of?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/ghost-army-of?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/ghost-army-of?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)