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001			on1047618243
003			OCoLC
005			20190425145751.0
008			180808s2019 mauab j b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2018961335
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dBDX _dOCLCQ _dXY4 _dOCLCO _dGRN _dOCLCO _dUAP _dNFG
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035			_a(OCoLC)1047618243
092			_a940.5421 _bJ33
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aJaneczko, Paul B., _eauthor. _981272
245	1	0	_aSecret soldiers : _bhow the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops fooled the Nazis / _cPaul B. Janeczko.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aSomerville, MA : _bCandlewick Press, _c2019.
300			_a294 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographics references (pages [278]-283) and index.
505	0		_aThe Ghost Army is born -- Recruitment and training -- Shipping out...and more waiting -- The Twenty-Third gets into action -- The first big test -- A trio of deceptions -- A deadly winter -- After the Battle of the Bulge -- The final deception.
520			_a"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, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated. Follow the Twenty-Third into Europe as they play a dangerous game of enticing the German army into making battlefield mistakes by using sonic deceptions, inflatable tanks, pyrotechnics, and camouflage in more than twenty operations. From the Normandy invasion to the crossing of the Rhine River, the men of the Ghost Army -- several of whom went on to become famous artists and designers after the war -- played an improbable role in the Allied victory."-- _cJacket flap.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vJuvenile literature. _9111828
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _vJuvenile literature. _913608
650		0	_aDeception (Military science) _vJuvenile literature. _9396781
655		7	_aInformational works. _2lcgft _9222299
655		7	_aIllustrated works. _2lcgft _94636
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c291211 _d291211