Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: The TORCH Landings

Name:	The TORCH Landings
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Documents: 12

646	BARTIMEUS. The Turn of the Road: Being the Story of . . . the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the Landings in Algeria and French Morocco. 122p., illus. London: Chatto & Windus, 1946. Mainly concerned with the Torch landings and the events of the rest of 1942, but does stray a little beyond this. Written in 1943 and not amended with hindsight.	view
647	BREUER, William B. Operation Torch: The Allied Gamble to Invade North Africa. xv, 272p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: St. Martin's, 1985. ISBN: 031258685X. Focuses on the experience of the US Forces.	view
648	FUNK, Arthur Layton. The Politics of Torch: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942. viii, 322p., bibliog., illus., index. Lawrence: Kansas UP, 1974. ISBN: 0700601236. A political, not military, study, with a particular emphasis on the French viewpoint.	view
649	GELB, Norman. Desperate Venture: The Story of Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa. 366p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hodder; New York: Morrow, 1992. ISBN: 0688098835. A wide-ranging American popular account of the operation.	view
650	HOWE, George F. Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West (United States Army in World War II. The Mediterranean Theater of Operations). xxiii, 748p., illus., index. Washington: Department of the Army, 1957. The US Army view of TORCH and the support given by the RN.	view
651	JONES, Vincent. Operation Torch: Anglo-American Invasion of North Africa (Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. Campaign Books). 159p., illus. New York: Ballantine, 1972; London: Pan/Ballantine, 1973. ISBN: 0345097785. Clearly told, with some naval information.	view
652	PACK, S. W. C. Invasion North Africa, 1942. 112p., illus. London: Ian Allan; New York: Scribner, 1978. ISBN: 0711008671. A full account of the planning and execution of the operation.	view
653	PARRIS, John A. Springboard to Berlin. [vi], 401p., illus., index. New York: Crowell, 1943. Four war correspondents report on the conquest of North Africa, from Torch onward, including the invasion of Sicily. One was on board Walney for the coup de main which failed.	view
654	SAINSBURY, K. The North African Landings, 1942: A Strategic Decision (Politics and Strategy of the Second World War). 215p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Davis-Poynter, 1976; Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1979. ISBN: 0706701860. Another in this series designed to show the reasons for decisions of policy in the running of the war.	view
4620	O’HARA, Vincent P. TORCH: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory. ix, 371p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis, NIP, 2015. ISBN: 9781612518237. A fresh but concise account of the landings with good coverage of the tangled Anglo-US-French politics involved.	view
4809	VERRIER, Anthony. Assassination in Algiers: Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle, and the Murder of Admiral Darlan. 302p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan; New York: Norton, 1991. ISBN: 033341439X. A revelatory account of strategy creation in the wake of the TORCH landings and of the murky world of politics and special operations.	view
5063	IZZARD, Brian. Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay. 288p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Casemate, 2020. ISBN: 9781612008387. The first major biography of Ramsay for over sixty years. During World War II he was a pivotal figure from his planning of the Dunkirk evacuation through to his role in planning Operation Neptune as well as operations TORCH and HUSKY. His mysterious death in a plane crash in 1945 has led to his seminal role being overlooked. A good account.	view