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Also by Rick Atkinson:

The Guns At Last Light, May 2013
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Where Valor Rests, May 2009
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The Day of Battle, October 2007
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An Army At Dawn, May 2007
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AN ARMY AT DAWN
By: Rick Atkinson

The War In North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One Of The Liberation Trilogy

The Liberation Trilogy #1
Holt
May 2007
On Sale: May 15, 2007
768 pages
ISBN: 0805087249
EAN: 9780805087246
Paperback
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war."—The Washington Post Book World

The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943.

Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algiers, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. At the center of the tale are the extraordinary but flawed commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.

Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's vivid narrative tells the deeply human story of a monumental battle for the future of civilization.

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