Название: 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
Автор: Winston Groom
Издательство: Grove Press
ISBN: 0871138891
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 464
Размер: 5,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand of warfare. To the generation of Americans who lived through it, the Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, and the defining moments of that war were played out in the year 1942.
This account covers the Allies’ relentless defeats as the Axis overran most of Europe, North Africa, and the Far East. But by midyear the tide began to turn. The United States finally went on the offensive in the Pacific. In the West, the British defeated Rommel’s panzer divisions at El Alamein while the US Army began to push the Germans out of North Africa. By the year’s end, the smell of victory was in the air.