Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis by Janeczko, Paul B.

Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763681531)

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Format: Hardcover
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Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis by Janeczko, Paul B.

Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis

$19.99
Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis by Janeczko, Paul B.

Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
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What do set design, sound effects, and showmanship have to do with winning World War II? Meet the Ghost Army that played a surprising role in helping to deceive -- and defeat -- the Nazis.

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.

Author: Paul B. Janeczko
ISBN-10: 0763681539
ISBN-13: 9780763681531
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.1
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 501511 / Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2019
School Library Journal 04/01/2019 pg. 98
Shelf Awareness 05/10/2019
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory
By Paul B. Janeczko
By Paul B. Janeczko
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Paul B. Janeczko (1945-2019) was a poet and teacher who edited numerous award-winning poetry anthologies for young people, including A Poke in the I, A Kick in the Head, A Foot in the Mouth, and The Death of the Hat, all of which were illustrated by Chris Raschka; Firefly July, illustrated by Melissa Sweet; and The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems, illustrated by Richard Jones. He also wrote Worlds Afire; Requiem: Poems of the Terez? Ghetto; Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing; Double Cross: Deception Techniques in War; The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles, a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults; and Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis.

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