Название: Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory
Автор: Vincent O'Hara
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612518230
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 384
Размер: 13,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.