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"World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch--a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa. The risk was enormous, the scale breathtaking, the preparations rushed, the training inadequate, and the ramifications profound. Torch was the first combined Allied offensive and key to how the Second World War unfolded politically and militarily. Nonetheless, historians have treated the subject lightly, perhaps because of its many ambiguities. As a surprise invasion of a neutral nation, it recalled German attacks against countries like Belgium, Norway, and Yugoslavia. The operation's rationale was to aid Russia but did not do this. It was supposed to get Americans troops into the fight against Germany but did so only because it failed to achieve its short-term military goals. There is still debate whether Torch advanced the fight against the Axis, or was a wasteful dispersion of Allied strength and actually prolonged the war.--Publisher description.
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World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, africa, Campaigns, Operation Torch, 1942, World War, 1939-1945, Military campaigns, Operation Torch (1942) fast (OCoLC)fst01756678, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Operation Torch (1942) fast (OCoLC)fst01756678 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01756678 (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095012, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180924| Edition | Availability |
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Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory
2023, Naval Institute Press
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Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory
2015, Naval Institute Press
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Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory
2015, Naval Institute Press
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