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If you want to read more than you ever wanted to know about that campaign,


read An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson. He covers the whole campaign, from why the Allies made a landing on the Atlantic Coast (thought Spain may enter the war on German side, and block the Straits of Gibraltar, so they wanted an Atlantic port), to all the politicking with the Vichy French then controlling North Africa.

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Posted: 03/17/2019 at 10:37AM



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