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An Army at Dawn : : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943

Atkinson, Rick. Book - 2002 Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / World War II / Atkinson, Rick 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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"An Owl book."
Allied chain of command -- Passage. A meeting with the Dutchman ; Gathering the ships ; Rendezvous at Cherchel ; On the knees of the gods ; A man must believe in his luck -- Landing. "In the night, all cats are grey" ; In Barbary ; Villain ; To the last man ; "Glory enough for us all" -- Beachhead. A sword in Algiers ; A blue flag over Oran ; "An orgy of disorder" ; Battle for the Kasbah ; "It's all over for now" -- Pushing East. "We live in tragic hours" ; A cold country with a hot sun ; Medjez-el-Bab ; Fat geese on a pond -- Primus in Carthago. "Go for the swine with a blithe heart" ; "The dead salute the gods" ; "Jerry is counterattacking!" -- A country of defiles. Longstop ; "They shot the little son of a bitch" ; "This is the hand of God" -- Casablanca. The ice-cream front ; Speedy Valley ; "The touch of the world" ; The Sinners' Concourse -- A bits and pieces war. "Goats set out to lure a tiger" ; "This can't happen to us" ; "The mortal dangers that beset us" ; "A good night for a mass murder" -- Kasserine. A hostile debouchment ; None returned ; "Sometimes that is not good enough" ; "This place is too hot" ; "Order, counter-order, and disorder" ; "Lay roughly on the tanks" -- The world we knew is a long time dead. Vigil in Red Oak ; "We know there'll be troubles of every sort" ; "One needs luck in war" ; "The devil is come down" -- Over the top. "Give them some steel!" ; "Search your soul" ; Night closes down ; "I had a plan-- now I have none" -- The inner keep. Hell's corner ; Hammering home the cork ; "Count your children now, Adolf!" ; Tunisgrad.

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SERIES
The Liberation trilogy
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PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: 681 p., [28] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0805074481
9780805074482
0805087249
9780805087246

SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.
Operation Torch, 1942.
Africa, North -- History, Military.