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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805062882
ISBN-139780805062885
eBay Product ID (ePID)1633995
Product Key Features
Book TitleArmy at Dawn : the War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
Number of Pages704 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicMilitary / World War II, Military / United States, Africa / North
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorRick Atkinson
Book SeriesThe Liberation Trilogy Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight38.1 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-024130
TitleLeadingAn
ReviewsEnormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one . . . A very moving book., Praise forThe Long Gray Line: "As masterfully executed as it was conceived." -Nicholas Proffit,The Philadelphia Inquirer(front page) "A story of epic proportions . . . An awesome feat of biographical reconstruction." -Cullen Murphey,The Boston Globe "Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one . . . A very moving book." -James Salter,The Washington Post Book World, Praise for The Long Gray Line : "As masterfully executed as it was conceived." -Nicholas Proffit, The Philadelphia Inquirer (front page) "A story of epic proportions . . . An awesome feat of biographical reconstruction." -Cullen Murphey, The Boston Globe "Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one . . . A very moving book." -James Salter, The Washington Post Book World, "As masterfully executed as it was conceived." -- Nicholas Proffit, The Philadelphia Inquirer (front page) on The Long Gray Line "A story of epic proportions . . . An awesome feat of biographical reconstruction." --Cullen Murphey, The Boston Globeon The Long Gray Line "Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one . . . A very moving book." --James Salter, The Washington Post Book World on The Long Gray Line
Series Volume Number1
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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., WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War 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.
LC Classification NumberD766.82.A82 2002
