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A Great American fiasco In the summer of 1942, seven months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, with the three axis powers, Japan, Germany and Italy, at war with the USA, what does President Roosevelt decide to do? He decides to invade French North Africa, of course, sending 150,000 soldiers in a couple of hundred ships 5,000 miles to spearhead Operation Torch, a name designed to inspire the French to rise up and fight against their oppressors. But he hasn't reckoned with the French North Africans, who are living the good life away from the war. And he didn't expect those he was 'liberating' to rise up against his forces...
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A Great American fiasco In the summer of 1942, seven months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, with the three Axis powers at war with the USA, what does President Roosevelt decide to do? He decides to invade French North Africa, of course. But he hasn?t reckoned with the French North Africans, living the good life away from the war. And he didn?t expect those he was ?liberating? to rise up against his forces . . .
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A Great American fiasco In the summer of 1942, seven months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, with the three axis powers, Japan, Germany and Italy, at war with the USA, what does President Roosevelt decide to do? He decides to invade French North Africa, of course, sending 150,000 soldiers in a couple of hundred ships 5,000 miles to spearhead Operation Torch, a name designed to inspire the French to rise up and fight against their oppressors. But he hasn't reckoned with the French North Africans, who are living the good life away from the war. And he didn't expect those he was 'liberating' to rise up against his forces...
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Operation Torch
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Severn House, 2005
ISBN 10: 0727862634
ISBN 13: 9780727862631
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Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Condición: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 39620699-20
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