But Soldiers Wondered Why
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Garden City, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa.; World War, 1939-1945 -- America.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: PAGE; title: Introduction ix; title: CHAPTER; title: I Challenge to the Americas i; title: II A Prophet Emerges 6; title: III Brazilian Democrat 15; title: IV Brazil — A Study in Compromise 22; title: V Argentina — Axis Bridgehead 33; title: VI Nationalism — Root of Latin-American Discord 45; title: VII Chile and Chaos to Come 56; title: VIII Sky Trucks and Politics 71; title: IX Why We Are in Libya 86; title: X He Fought for Keeps 96; title: XI Retreat from Tobruk 104; title: XII Fear Comes to Cairo 118; title: XIII Why the British Nearly Lost Egypt 129; title: XIV In Which I Encounter the Herr Doktor 147; title: XV Hell Ships from the Orient 157; title: XVI Axis Stooges in South Africa 171; title: XVII Return to Reality 184; title: XVIII Air Power Did It 189; title: XIX Rommel Meets the AAF 199; title: XX My Trouble with Willkie 209; title: XXI Variations on a Theme 217; title: XXII Appeasement in Madagascar 225; title: XXIII Too Many Flags 234; title: XXIV Lest We Forget 251; title: Epilogue 267