Bibliograph

First blood in North Africa, Operation Torch and the U.S. campaign in Africa in WWII, Jon Diamond

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Label

First blood in North Africa, Operation Torch and the U.S. campaign in Africa in WWII, Jon Diamond

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

First blood in North Africa

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jon Diamond

Series statement

Stackpole military photo series

Sub title

Operation Torch and the U.S. campaign in Africa in WWII

Summary

In November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. launched Operation Torch, its first major offensive against the Germans. This photo chronicle covers the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria and the subsequent desert clashes in Tunisia as American forces under Eisenhower and Patton battled the German Afrika Korps of Erwin Rommel, the famous "Desert Fox."

Target audience

adult

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