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Second Acts
Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House
By Updegrove, Mark K.
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- ISBN
- 978-1-59228-942-4
- Publisher
- The Lyons Press
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Reviewed on October 15, 2006
The November 1942 Allied landings in North Africa (Operation TORCH) represented the first effective counterstrike against the Nazi juggernaut in the West. Vaughan (Doctor to the Resistance ) describes the undercover activity of a group of amateur yet dedicated American foreign service officers sent by FDR to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia to make TORCH possible. Led by Robert Murphy at the U.S. consulate in Algeria, these 12 vice consuls worked quietly yet effectively to undermine Nazi and Italian ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
