Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain, Morison could go & come as he pleased throughout the world-flung U.S. Navy. By V-J day he and his staff had witnessed all the major U.S. naval operations, discussed them with admirals, petty officers and seamen, consulted reams of action reports and war diaries. If North African Waters is a fair sample, the completed history will be one of the basic records of World...
...Gamble. Though it has not been souped up for popular appeal, North African Waters makes fascinating reading. The narrative repeatedly slows down to take aboard tables, charts and technical details. More informal books-e.g., Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone...
...London the family had been sedulously boning up on South African history, politics, economics and the Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux. Fashion reporters were invited to see the new clothes but editors had to sign a solemn promise that the clothes would not be described until the royal ladies had appeared in them. Meanwhile, hints kept Britain's newspaper readers in more or less breathless anticipation...
...Africa, burst into American Headquarters after the November 1942 invasion and in those four grim words tearfully predicted Axis downfall will be disclosed publicly for the first time on February 18 by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in his forthcoming book "Operations in North African Waters...
...Germans had been beating the Allies at every turn up until that point," he continued. "The North African invasion was our first action that really clicked...