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Of all these attacks, the one in the center seemed last week to have the greatest likelihood of early success. The Germans in their mountain positions elsewhere were set for siege. They had dug in for months. But in the center, the First was edging on to the plain of...
Men differed in describing Takrouna. Some of the Highlanders, staring at it through the moon-sifting mist that night, said that it looked like Edinburgh Castle. Other men said it looked like terrain on the moon. One man, looking at it through binoculars, said: "It is as though a great...
Takrouna was taken. The Eighth Army moved on toward its goal, Tunis.
Behind them were other hills, and there were hills to the right and the left. But before them, to the right of the Medjerda River's path (see map), the valley stretched straight and flat as far as the eye could see, toward Tunis.
But peace was not this valley's destiny. This valley was the gate to Tunis, 35 miles from the soldiers' hilltop. Of all the positions held by the Allies in Tunisia, these on the rim of the valley were the most important.