A HISTORY OF
THE MEDITERRANEAN AIR WAR, 1940-1945:
VOLUME THREE. TUNISIA AND THE END IN AFRICA
by Christopher Shores & Giovanni
Massimello
The third volume in
this series returns to November 1942 to
explain the background to the first major
Anglo-American venture – Operation Torch,
the invasion of French North Africa. It
deals with the fratricidal combats which
followed the initial landings in Morocco and
Algeria for several days. It then considers
the efforts made – unsuccessfully in the
event – to reach northern Tunisia before the
Germans and Italians could get there to
forestall the possibility of an attack from
the west on the rear of the Afrika Korps
forces, then beginning their retreat from El
Alamein. Co-authored by Russell Guest, Frank
Olynyk and Winfried Bock
