Author

Publication

2007-05-15 - Holt Paperbacks

Language

English

Word Count

192,000 words, Guess

Page Count

768 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100805087249
  • ISBN-139780805087246
  • Better World Books9780805087246
  • Open LibraryOL7933321M

Description

The liberation of Europe and defeat of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. Sixty years after America joined the struggle, Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the Allied victory without a grasp of what unfolded in North Africa in 1942-943, where American officers learned how to lead, soldiers learned how to hate, and an army learned what it takes to vanquish a formidable enemy.

First Sentence

A FEW minutes past 10 A.M. on Wednesday, October 21, 1942, a twin-engine Navy passenger plane broke through the low overcast blanketing Washington, D.C., then banked over the Potomac River for the final approach to Anacostia Field.

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Other Editions

  • An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy)PaperbackHolt Paperbacks2007-05-15
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