Disaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1st Us Army in North Africa 1943
Book Details
Author(s)Charles Heyman, Charles Whiting
PublisherPen & Sword
ISBN / ASIN0850529824
ISBN-139780850529821
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,759,236
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Those who imagined that the arrival of a major American force in North Africa would immediately tip the balance against Rommel's Africa Korps were to be proved badly wrong. In what turned out to be a disastrously over-ambitious plan, the 1st (US) Army sailed across the Atlantic and went straight in the Operation Torch landings in Tunisia. Just how ill-prepared the GI Army and its generals were, became horrifically apparant at the Kasserine Pass.
