Under the Red Sea Sun

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480493674

<DIV><B>A Navy admiral&rsquo;s firsthand account of the Allied salvage operation that played a key role in recovering North Africa from the Nazis during World War II.</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> By 1942, Mussolini&rsquo;s forces were on the run in East Africa. In order to slow the Allied advance, the Italians used audacious tactics&mdash;including making ports inoperable, leaving the Allies without the infrastructure necessary to continue the war effort.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> At Massawa, Eritrea, the fleeing Italians left the largest mass wreck in the world, turning a vital port into a tangle of shattered ships, cranes, sunken dry docks, and dangerous booby traps. In order to continue the war effort and push back the Axis powers in Africa, the Allies enlisted a naval salvage expert known as Commander Ellsberg.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Ellsberg, a veteran miracle worker in raising sunken ships, was given his toughest assignment yet: Reopen the port with no budget, no men, and no tools. The British had claimed the task was impossible&mdash;Massawa couldn&rsquo;t be cleared. But a determined Ellsberg navigated complicated American and British bureaucracies to build a ragtag group of international civilians and pull off a historic feat of engineering. This is his account of that crucial operation&mdash;the largest of its kind the world had ever seen&mdash;accomplished in the searing heat of Eritrea.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>