An army at dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 /
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| Author / Creator: | Atkinson, Rick. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2002. |
| Description: | 681 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The liberation trilogy ; v. 1 Atkinson, Rick. Liberation trilogy ; v. 1. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4746288 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps
- Map Legend
- Allied Chain of Command
- Prologue
- Part 1.
- 1.. Passage
- A Meeting with the Dutchman
- Gathering the Ships
- Rendezvous at Cherchel
- On the Knees of the Gods
- A Man Must Believe in His Luck
- 2.. Landing
- "In the Night, All Cats Are Grey"
- In Barbary
- Villain
- To the Last Man
- "Glory Enough for Us All"
- 3.. Beachhead
- A Sword in Algiers
- A Blue Flag over Oran
- "An Orgy of Disorder"
- Battle for the Kasbah
- "It's All Over for Now"
- Part 2.
- 4.. Pushing East
- "We Live in Tragic Hours"
- A Cold Country with a Hot Sun
- Medjez-el-Bab
- Fat Geese on a Pond
- 5.. Primus in Carthago
- "Go for the Swine with a Blithe Heart"
- "The Dead Salute the Gods"
- "Jerry Is Counterattacking!"
- 6.. A Country of Defiles
- Longstop
- "They Shot the Little Son of a Bitch"
- "This Is the Hand of God"
- Part 3.
- 7.. Casablanca
- The Ice-Cream Front
- Speedy Valley
- "The Touch of the World"
- The Sinners' Concourse
- 8.. A Bits and Pieces War
- "Goats Set Out to Lure a Tiger"
- "This Can't Happen to Us"
- "The Mortal Dangers That Beset Us"
- "A Good Night for a Mass Murder"
- 9.. Kasserine
- A Hostile Debouchment
- None Returned
- "Sometimes That Is Not Good Enough"
- "This Place Is Too Hot"
- "Order, Counter-order, and Disorder"
- "Lay Roughly on the Tanks"
- Part 4.
- 10.. The World We Knew Is a Long Time Dead
- Vigil in Red Oak
- "We Know There'll Be Troubles of Every Sort"
- "One Needs Luck in War"
- "The Devil Is Come Down"
- 11.. Over the Top
- "Give Them Some Steel!"
- "Search Your Soul"
- Night Closes Down
- "I Had a Plan ... Now I Have None"
- 12.. The Inner Keep
- Hell's Corner
- Hammering Home the Cork
- "Count Your Children Now, Adolf!"
- Tunisgrad
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index
