Bibliograph

An army at dawn, the war in North Africa, 1942-1943, Rick Atkinson

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An army at dawn, the war in North Africa, 1942-1943, Rick Atkinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An army at dawn

Medium

text large print

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

849822665

Responsibility statement

Rick Atkinson

Series statement

The liberation trilogy, volume oneThorndike Press large print nonfiction

Sub title

the war in North Africa, 1942-1943

Summary

The liberation of Europe and defeat of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. Sixty years after America joined the struggle, Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the Allied victory without a grasp of what unfolded in North Africa in 1942-943, where American officers learned how to lead, soldiers learned how to hate, and an army learned what it takes to vanquish a formidable enemy

Table Of Contents

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 -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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