1943 : days of peril, year of victory /

Brooks, Victor,

1943 : days of peril, year of victory / Victor Brooks. - xxi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Buna to Bismarck Sea -- Debacle at Kasserine Pass -- Invasion USA: Battle for the Northland -- The Road to Tunisgrad -- The Ice Warriors -- Up Periscope -- The Dawn of "Husky" -- Climax on Sicily -- Whirlwind over the Reich -- Death of an Admiral, Birth of a Legend -- Yanks -- The Battle for Salerno -- A Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa -- The Devil's Playground: Naples to the Volturno -- December 1943.

"Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces"--

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World War, 1939-1945.


United States--Armed Forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.

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