Winston, Sir Churchill, The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War, Volume 4: Bantam Books (Mm), 1950), 317
Author’s note: Earlier that spring, the issue before the Allies was a cross-channel invasion planned for 1943. WSC’s comment quoted above regarding the plan of attack came ahead of the Second Washington Conference, in talks with General [...]
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“I had no hesitation in cordially accepting the plan,” Churchill
Allies and Adversaries
Mark A. Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.s. Strategy in World War II (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 67-83
Author’s note: Stoler writes — “In January (Allies and Adversaries, pg. 71) Eisenhower included North Africa as one of the political “side shows” that should [...]
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