With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945

by Barbara Brooks Tomblin

Book Overview

" Nineteen months before the D-day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on the Axis by attacking what Winston Churchill dubbed "the soft underbelly of Europe." The Allies seized the island of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813123380
• ISBN13: 9780813123387
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher