Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver

Turning the Tide

The Usaaf in North Africa and Sicily

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Produktbeschreibung

Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781472860262
• ISBN-10: 1472860268
• Artikelnr.: 73929790

Autorenporträt

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps
Foreword by Richard P. Hallion
Author's Preface
Chapter One: The Mad Dash
Chapter Two: 1942 - The Lowest Year
Chapter Three: First in the Blue
Chapter Four: El Alamein
Chapter Five: Opponents
Chapter Six: Airwar over Casablanca
Chapter Seven: Race to Tunisia
Chapter Eight: Bomber Boys
Chapter Nine: Kasserine Pass
Chapter Ten: Tunisgrad
Chapter Eleven: Pantelleria
Chapter Twelve: Air War over Sicily
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Rezensionen

This is a story of high drama and high heroism, told by a master of military aviation history. Once again, Tom Cleaver has given us a work that both informs and entertains, and which makes a substantial and lasting contribution to military aviation historiography.