Freedom's forge : how American business produced victory in World War II
(2012)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2012
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 57 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781464041440 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13526614, 146404144X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13526614
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Narrated by Joghn McDonough
New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of "Liberty ships"-vessels that came to symbolize America's great wartime output
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