Under the Red Sea sun /
To recover North Africa from the Nazis, the Allies had to undertake the largest salvage operation the world had ever seenBy 1942, Mussolini's forces were on the run in East Africa. In order to slow the Allied advance, the Italians used audacious tactics. One included making ports inoperable, le...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Open Road Integrated Media,
2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Summary: | To recover North Africa from the Nazis, the Allies had to undertake the largest salvage operation the world had ever seenBy 1942, Mussolini's forces were on the run in East Africa. In order to slow the Allied advance, the Italians used audacious tactics. One included making ports inoperable, leaving the Allies without the infrastructure necessary to continue the war effort. At Massawa, Eritrea, the fleeing Italians left the largest mass wreck in the world, turning a vital port into a tangle of shattered ships, cranes, and sunken dry docks. In order to continue the war effort and push back the |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (755 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1-4804-9367-8 |