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Author
Series
Spy on history volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm + 1 envelope.
Description
Your mission: Find Victor Dowd's missing sketchbook. And discover one of the most unusual stories of World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Description
A cultural history/visual culture book featuring the story, photos, ephemera, and art of The Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit, which used inflatable tanks and other illusions to mislead the Germans on the battlefields of Europe. The Army recruited artists to create these illusions; in private moments, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique visual record of the war.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"In his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This remarkable unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically replace fighting units -- fooling the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them,...
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