"The Murder of Admiral Darlan" Topic
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Tango01  | 04 Aug 2023 8:46 p.m. PST |
" I found this book in a second-hand bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, which intrigued me because I knew very little about the French side of Operation Torch – the Allied landings in French North Africa in November 1942. While the book's title refers to one aspect of that story, the book covers much more. The author, Peter Tompkins, served with the Allied Psychological Warfare Branch in North Africa and witnessed many of the events he describes. The background to the story was the efforts to ensure that the Allied landings commanded by Eisenhower did not face military resistance from the Vichy French forces. These forces were significant if poorly equipped. However, fighting would undermine the liberation message and delay the advance into Tunisia, cutting off Rommel's retreat from the Western Desert after El Alamein…"
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| Shagnasty | 05 Aug 2023 8:55 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 05 Aug 2023 3:09 p.m. PST |
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