TUNISGRAD PB

A BBC History Magazine and Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025 Terrific full of drama it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War PATRICK BISHOPFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR On 8 November 1942 British and American troops invaded French North Africa as part of Operation Torch the largest amphibious operation of the war to date The Germans responded by flooding troops into Tunisia and the stage was set for one of the most decisive clashes of the war For months the outcome hung in the balance The Allies failed to capture Tunis before Christmas and early in the New Year the legendary German commander Erwin Rommel the Desert Fox inflicted a series of crushing defeats on inexperienced American troops in the mountain passes of central Tunisia But once the two Allied armies the First and the Eighth had joined hands in southern Tunisia in early April the defeat of Axis forces was inevitable The end came on 13 May when the remnants of the First Italian Army surrendered to British troops in northern Tunisia leaving the Allies masters of the North African shores It was with Guadalcanal in the Pacific and Stalingrad in