- Summary
- "This memoir by United Press war correspondent Henry T. Gorrell provides eyewitness accounts from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War and the war fronts in Greece, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa during World War II"--Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Gorrell, Henry T., 1911-1958.
- Published
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
©2009
- Locale
- United States
Spain
- Contents
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Prologue
Little Caesar
Civil War in Spain
Prisoner of war
The Simpson case
The siege of Madrid
Interlude : reflecting on events, 1936-1939
London : September 1939
Balkan powder keg
Nadia of the Gestapo
Lieutenant Bill Belle
Hitler : "carry out plan number four!"
Vichy treachery
Taxi to Teheran
Interlude : October 1941-May 1942
Malta convoy
The retreat to Alamein
Rommel hits a Stone Wall
"The lull continues in the western desert"
BBC
"Winnie" comes to Alamein
"No retreat and no surrender"
Montgomery
"Milk run" to Benghazi
The bombing of Navarino bay
The battle of Alamein
Rommel packs up
Benghazi's fall
The Yanks bomb Naples
The death of Private "X"
The "ladies from hell" attack
The fall of Tripoli
Conclusion (but the war goes on).
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gorrell, Kenneth.
- Notes
-
Includes index.
Prologue -- Little Caesar -- Civil War in Spain -- Prisoner of war -- The Simpson case -- The siege of Madrid -- Interlude : reflecting on events, 1936-1939 -- London : September 1939 -- Balkan powder keg -- Nadia of the Gestapo -- Lieutenant Bill Belle -- Hitler : "carry out plan number four!" -- Vichy treachery -- Taxi to Teheran -- Interlude : October 1941-May 1942 -- Malta convoy -- The retreat to Alamein -- Rommel hits a Stone Wall -- "The lull continues in the western desert"--BBC -- "Winnie" comes to Alamein -- "No retreat and no surrender"--Montgomery -- "Milk run" to Benghazi -- The bombing of Navarino bay -- The battle of Alamein -- Rommel packs up -- Benghazi's fall -- The Yanks bomb Naples -- The death of Private "X" -- The "ladies from hell" attack -- The fall of Tripoli -- Conclusion (but the war goes on).
