An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy)

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation...

In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa

The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. 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. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.

Beginning 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 Algeria, 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. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.

Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.

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1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-24-2008; An Army At Dawn; Outstanding account of invasion of North Africa 1943. Well researched and written with an engrossing style. I have purchased other Atkinson books and they are all outstading historical narratives written in a manner that one can sense...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-01-2008; It's a Page Turner; Outstanding. Tight writing moves the narrative along quickly, with plenty of fascinating information. The initial incompetence of the American war effort is second only to the perpetual incompetence of the French. Eisenhower and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-25-2008; A terrific book.; I was very disappointed in one of Atkinson's later books (In the Company of Soldiers), in which his Washington Post political POV was evident throughout, but this one is top drawer. Any WWII reader or armchair general will thoroughly...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-20-2008; Poorly Written, Poorly Constructed; My two big loves in military history are Gettysburg and Waterloo. I've read many, many books on both topics and love a well written, narrative history. Stephen Sears' classic on Gettysburg is the exemplar.Rick Atkinson is probably a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-01-2008; It's a Page Turner; Outstanding. Tight writing moves the narrative along quickly, with plenty of fascinating information. The initial incompetence of the American war effort is second only to the perpetual incompetence of the French. Eisenhower and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-28-2008; Not a balanced history; The good part about this book is in the details. Many engagements are described day-by-day and objective-by-objective. The lives and experiences of officers and men throughout the ranks are investigated.The bad part about this book is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-24-2008; An Army At Dawn; Outstanding account of invasion of North Africa 1943. Well researched and written with an engrossing style. I have purchased other Atkinson books and they are all outstading historical narratives written in a manner that one can sense...; read full review | report as inappropriate