Word: littorale
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Africa is divided by two great military barriers: the jungles of the Congo, which isolate British South Africa from most of the continent, and the Sahara desert, which divides the Mediterranean littoral (now mostly Vichy-and Axis-held) from the more habitable portion of the tropics lying north of the...
Revolt against the Russians was reported breaking out in Estonia; the Germans set up a puppet Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases...
The strategic loss was severe, and last week the British felt the full force of that loss. British war vessels, trying to cooperate in the Syrian adventure (see p. 28) as they had along the Libyan littoral, took a pasting from the air. So did Matrûh, the British...
Bombardment and Supply. Not one of the astounding British successes in Africa could have happened had it not been for the Eastern Fleet. With a force of four battleships, two battle cruisers, two carriers, eight to ten light and heavy cruisers, plenty of destroyers, at least two flotillas of submarines...
Then came World War II and with it a British-French blockade of German ports, German-Spanish trade dwindled. Oranges piled up on Valencia's docks, the iron ore of the Basque littoral could no longer be shipped to Hamburg. Generalissimo Franco, although holding Britain and France responsible for...