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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History Military history |
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Named Person: | Winston Churchill; Winston Churchill |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Winston Churchill |
OCLC Number: | 396150 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xvi, 749 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimile ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The command of the seas, Guadalcanal and New Guinea -- The conquest of Sicily, July and August 1943 -- The fall of Mussolini -- Westward ho? synthetic harbours -- The Quebec Conference quadrant -- Italy: the armistice -- At the White House again, the invasion of Italy -- The Battle of Salerno, a homeward voyage -- A spell at home -- Tensions with General de Gaulle -- The broken Axis, Autumn 1943 -- Island prizes lost -- Hitler's secret weapon -- Deadlock on the Third Front -- Arctic convoys again -- Foreign secretaries' conference in Moscow -- Advent of the triple meeting -- Cairo -- Teheran: th opening -- Cairo again: the high command -- In Carthage ruins Azio -- At Marrakesh convalescence -- Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia -- The Anzio stroke -- Italy:Cassino -- The mounting air offensive -- The Greek torment -- Burma and beyond -- Strategy against Japan -- Preparations for "Overlord" -- Rome -- On the eve. |
Responsibility: | Winston S. Churchill. |
Abstract:
Covers the beginning of the summer of 1943 to the evening of June 5, 1943 with the great armada waiting for the historic landing on June 6.
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