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.
