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Ghost Army of World War IIHow One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, & Other Audacious Fakery (Updated Ed

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Ghost Army of World War IIHow One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, & Other Audacious Fakery (Updated Ed

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ISBN: 9781797225296
Title: Ghost Army of World War IIHow One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, & Other Audacious Fakery (Updated Ed
Author: BEYER RICK SAYLES ELIZABETH

In The Summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young artists, designers, and sound engineers-including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, and Art Kane-landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with rubber tanks, fake artillery, 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. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to mislead the enemy about the strength and location of American units. As they traveled across Europe, artists in the unit filled their duffel bags with the drawings and paintings they created between missions. The Ghost Army of World War II is lavishly illustrated with original artwork, as well as maps, photographs, official memos, and letters. Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles's meticulous research and interviews with many of the soldiers underpin a compelling narrative of how an unlikely team-wielding imagination, paint, and bravado-saved thousands of American lives.

Format: Hardback
Price: $90.00

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Weight 1110 g
Dimensions 262 × 213 × 28 mm