Word: tunision
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Hope and Pride. The British Second is now the most fully rested of Eisenhower's seasoned armies. Direct offspring of Britain's famed Eighth (which Monty rolled from El Alamein to Tunis, and which is now bogged down in Italy), the Second had the hard job of holding...
No Sicilian needed to be told that his three-cornered Trinacria, 75 miles from Africa across the shallow Straits of Pantelleria, and two miles from Europe across the deep Straits of Messina, possessed strategic significance.* He remembered too well the prewar days when the French in Tunis, the British in...
More light on Z followed for the Germans when Coningham again used his whole force to bomb Tunis. It was the payoff. Tunis surrendered in 48 hours. He considers this his best tactical performance up to the Normandy invasion.
In Tunis, General Charles de Gaulle pointedly reminded the U.S. and Britain that France has another friend. Said he: "Toward the west the French want to be a center of direct and practical cooperation while they want to be permanent allies in relation to the east-that is to say...
When Britain's Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France's most discussed, most influential man of letters, septuagenarian Novelist Andre Paul Guillaume Gide. German patrols...