Disaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1st (US) Army in North Africa 1943

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Pen & Sword Books Limited, Feb 11, 2003 - History - 224 pages
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.

About the author (2003)

Born in the Bootham area of York, England, he was a pupil at the prestigious Nunthorpe Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16 to join the British Army by lying about his age. Keen to be in on the wartime action, Whiting was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and by the age of 18 saw duty as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany in the latter stages of World War II. While still a soldier, he observed conflicts between the highest-ranking British and American generals which he would write about extensively in later years.

Bibliographic information

TitleDisaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1st (US) Army in North Africa 1943
AuthorCharles Whiting
Editionreprint
PublisherPen & Sword Books Limited, 2003
ISBN1473813646, 9781473813649
Length224 pages
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