L. Keeney – PointblankOva směrnice: Tři generálové a nevyřčený příběh odvážného plánu, který zachránil Den D

Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? Historians have debated that question for six decades, but in 2010 a formerly classified World War II D-Day history was restored, and in it were a new set of answers. Pointblank is the result of extensive new research using that newly restored history to create a richly textured portrait of air power and leadership, and perhaps the last untold story of D-Day: Three uniquely talented men and why, on the single most important day to the survival of the Third Reich, the German Air Force was unable to mount a single effective combat mission against the invasion forces. After a year of unremarkable bombing against Germany aircraft industry, and with just five months to go until D-Day, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, commander of the United States Army Air Forces placed his lifelong friend General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz in command of the strategic bombing forces in Europe and gave his protégé, General James "Jimmy" Doolittle command of the Eighth Air Force in England. For these fellow aviation pioneers and air war strategists, he had but one set of orders: Sweep the skies clean of the Luftwaffe by June 1944. Spaatz and Doolittle couldn't do that, but they could do what Arnold really wanted: Clear the skies sufficiently to gain air superiority over the D-Day beaches. The plan was called Pointblank. In Pointblank, L. Douglass Keeney carefully reconstructs the events in the air war that led up to D-Day while painting an in-depth portrait of the lives and times of these aviation pioneers.

L. Douglas Keeney Již šestnáct let píše vojenskou literaturu faktu a je známým badatelem mezi archiváři tam, kde odpočívají dříve utajované dokumenty. Jeho práce byla recenzována v časopisech Newsweek, salon.com, The New Yorker a The New York Times. Keeney se objevil na The Discovery Channel, CBS, The Learning Channel a The Military Channel (který spoluzaložil) a poskytl rozhovory mnoha rozhlasovým stanicím a syndikátům. V současné době je moderátorem pořadu On Target. Předtím Keeney pracoval patnáct let v marketingu a reklamě v Los Angeles a New Yorku ve společnostech Young & Rubicam a Ogilvy & Mather a na mezinárodní úrovni v dceřiné společnosti British-American Tobacco. Byl nominován na Institute for Advanced Advertising Studies (NYC) a byl nominován na podnikatele roku Graduate School of Business na University of Southern California. Keeney má bakalářský titul v oboru ekonomie z University of Southern California a titul MBA z University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.