L. Keeney – Pointblank Directive: 세 명의 장군과 D-Day를 구한 대담한 계획에 대한 알려지지 않은 이야기

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. 더글러스 키니 16년 동안 군사 논픽션을 집필해 왔으며 이전에 기밀 문서가 보관되어 있는 기록 보관소 사이에서 잘 알려진 연구자입니다. 그의 작품은 뉴스위크(Newsweek), salon.com, 뉴요커(The New Yorker), 뉴욕 타임즈(The New York Times)에서 리뷰했습니다. Keeney는 The Discovery Channel, CBS, The Learning Channel 및 The Military Channel(그가 공동 설립)에 출연했으며 수십 개의 라디오 방송국 및 신디케이트와 인터뷰를 했습니다. 그는 현재 On Target의 방송 진행자입니다. 이전에 Keeney는 로스앤젤레스와 뉴욕에서 Young & Rubicam 및 Ogilvy & Mather와 함께 15년 동안 마케팅 및 광고 분야에서 일했으며, 국제적으로는 British-American Tobacco의 자회사에서 일했습니다. 그는 뉴욕시 (Institute for Advanced Advertising Studies)에 지명되었으며 University of Southern California의 경영 대학원에서 올해의 기업가 후보에 올랐습니다. Keeney는 University of Southern California에서 경제학 학사 학위를, University of Southern California의 Marshall School of Business에서 MBA를 취득했습니다.