With utmost spirit
Subtitle: Allied naval operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945
By: Barbara Brooks Tomblin.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mediterranean Region.
Description: "In this new examination of the Mediterranean war, Barbara Brooks Tomblin details the planning and execution of each major Allied attack on what Winston Churchill dubbed "the soft underbelly of Europe." Operating under the leadership of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, and others, Allied forces achieved the first of their objectives in November 1942 by establishing a presence along the North African shore. In subsequent missions, the Allies seized the island of Sicily, landed on mainland Italy at Salerno and Anzio, and brought in army ashore on the coast of southern France."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-556) and index.
Table of contents: title: A new chapter in the struggle for the Mediterranean; title: Operation Torch: the landings in French Morocco; title: Operation Torch: the Mediterranean landings; title: The race to Tunis; title: The Tunisian campaign; title: Gearing up for Operation Husky; title: Operation Husky; title: The Sicilian campaign; title: The race to Messina; title: Operation Avalanche; title: The Salerno campaign; title: Fall 1943 : the Italian campaign; title: Operation Shingle; title: The Anzio campaign; title: Breakout : operations Diadem and Buffalo; title: Preliminaries to Operation Dragoon; title: Operation Dragoon: the landings in southern France; title: Operation Dragoon: final phase; title: The champagne campaign; title: Mopping up in the Med.