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Index
Cover
Praise
Also by Rick Atkinson
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
Epigraph
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
MAP LEGEND
ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
1. PASSAGE
A Meeting with the Dutchman
Gathering the Ships
Rendezvous at Cherchel
On the Knees of the Gods
A Man Must Believe in His Luck
2. LANDING
“In the Night, All Cats Are Grey”
In Barbary
VILLAIN
To the Last Man
“Glory Enough for Us All”
3. BEACHHEAD
A Sword in Algiers
A Blue Flag over Oran
“An Orgy of Disorder”
Battle for the Kasbah
“It’s All Over for Now”
PART TWO
4. PUSHING EAST
“We Live in Tragic Hours”
A Cold Country with a Hot Sun
Medjez-el-Bab
Fat Geese on a Pond
5. PRIMUS IN CARTHAGO
“Go for the Swine with a Blithe Heart”
“The Dead Salute the Gods”
“Jerry Is Counterattacking!”
6. A COUNTRY OF DEFILES
Longstop
“They Shot the Little Son of a Bitch”
“This Is the Hand of God”
PART THREE
7. CASABLANCA
The Ice-Cream Front
Speedy Valley
“The Touch of the World”
The Sinners’ Concourse
8. A BITS AND PIECES WAR
“Goats Set Out to Lure a Tiger”
“This Can’t Happen to Us”
“The Mortal Dangers That Beset Us”
“A Good Night for a Mass Murder”
9. KASSERINE
A Hostile Debouchment
None Returned
“Sometimes That Is Not Good Enough”
“This Place Is Too Hot”
“Order, Counter-order, and Disorder”
“Lay Roughly on the Tanks”
PART FOUR
10. THE WORLD WE KNEW IS A LONG TIME DEAD
Vigil in Red Oak
“We Know There’ll Be Troubles of Every Sort”
“One Needs Luck in War”
“The Devil Is Come Down”
11. OVER THE TOP
“Give Them Some Steel!”
“Search Your Soul”
Night Closes Down
“I Had a Plan…Now I Have None”
12. THE INNER KEEP
Hell’s Corner
Hammering Home the Cork
“Count Your Children Now, Adolf!”
Tunisgrad
EPILOGUE
PHOTOGRAPHS
NOTES
SOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Author
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