The Rising Tide is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Jeffrey M. Shaara
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Maps © 2006 by David Lindroth
eISBN-13: 978-0-345-49533-4
eISBN-10: 0-345-49533-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shaara, Jeff.
The rising tide : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara.
p. cm.
1. World War, 1939–1945—Italy—Sicily—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—North Africa—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.H18R58 2006
813'.54—dc22 2006042936
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