L. Keeney – La directive Pointblank : trois généraux et l’histoire inédite du plan audacieux qui a sauvé le jour J

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 écrit des ouvrages de non-fiction militaire depuis seize ans et est un chercheur bien connu parmi les archivistes où reposent des documents autrefois classifiés. Son travail a été examiné par Newsweek, salon.com, The New Yorker et The New York Times. Keeney est apparu sur The Discovery Channel, CBS, The Learning Channel et The Military Channel (qu’il a cofondé), et il a été interviewé par de nombreuses stations de radio et syndicats. Il est actuellement l’animateur en ondes de On Target. Auparavant, Keeney a travaillé pendant quinze ans dans le marketing et la publicité à Los Angeles et à New York avec Young & Rubicam et Ogilvy & Mather, et à l’international avec une filiale de British-American Tobacco. Il a été nominé à l’Institute for Advanced Advertising Studies (NYC) et a été nominé pour l’entrepreneur de l’année par la Graduate School of Business de l’Université de Californie du Sud. Keeney est titulaire d’un BA en économie de l’Université de Californie du Sud et d’un MBA de l’Université de Californie du Sud.’s Marshall School of Business.