Operation Torch 1942: The invasion of French North Africa (Campaign)

Following The Raid On Pearl Harbor And The Entry Of The United States Into World War Ii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Identified The European Theatre As His Country's Priority. Their First Joint Operation With The British Was An Amphibious Invasion Of French North Africa, Designed To Relieve Pressure On Their New Soviet Allies, Eliminate The Threat Of The French Navy Joining The Germans, And To Shore Up The Vulnerability Of British Imperial Possessions And Trade Routes Through The Mediterranean. Operation Torch Was The Largest And Most Complex Amphibious Invasion Of Its Time. In November 1942, Three Landings Took Place Simultaneously Across The French North African Coast In An Ambitious Attempt To Trap And Annihilate The Axis' North African Armies Between The Invading Forces Under General Eisenhower And British Field-marshall Montgomery's Eighth Army In Egypt. Using Full Colour Artwork, Maps And Contemporary Photographs, This Is The Thrilling Story Of This Complex Operation.--publisher's Description. Origins Of The Campaign -- Vichy France 1940 -- 41 -- Anglo-american Grand Strategy 1941 -- 42 -- Operation Torch Takes Shape, July 25 -- November 7 1942 -- Chronology -- Opposing Commanders -- Allied -- French -- Axis -- Opposing Forces -- Allied -- French -- Axis -- Orders Of Battle, November 8 1942 -- Opposing Plans -- Allied -- French -- Axis -- The Campaign -- French North Africa, D-1 -- Eastern Task Force -- Center Task Force -- Western Task Force -- Post-invasion Bedlam -- The Race For Tunis -- The End Of Torch. Brian Lane Herder ; Illustrated By Darren Tan ; Associate Editor, Nikolai Bogdanovic. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 93-94) And Index. A highly illustrated study of Operation Torch, the first major Allied amphibious invasion of the war.Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of French North Africa, designed to relieve pressure on their new Soviet allies, eliminate the threat of the French navy joining the Germans, and to shore up the vulnerability of British imperial possessions and trade routes through the Mediterranean.Operation Torch was the largest and most complex amphibious invasion of its time. In November 1942, three landings took place simultaneously across the French North African coast in an ambitious attempt to trap and annihilate the Axis'North African armies between the invading forces under General Eisenhower and British Field-Marshall Montgomery's Eighth Army in Egypt.Using full colour artwork, maps and contemporary photographs, this is the thrilling story of this complex operation. Following the entry of the United States into World War II,the first US-British joint operation was an amphibious invasion of French North Africa. This was designed to relieve pressure on their new Soviet allies, to eliminate the threat of the French Navy joining the Germans, and to shore up the vulnerability of British imperial possessions and trade routes through the Mediterranean. It was the largest and most complex amphibious invasion of its time with three simultaneous landings across the French North African coast. This detailed exploration of Operation *Torch* reveals this ambitious attempt to trap and annihilate the Axis' North African armies between the invading forces under Eisenhower and Montgomery's Eighth Army in Egypt using full colour artwork, maps and contemporary photographs.