![]() ![]() ![]() Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. 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 19.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. The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war."-The Washington Post Book WorldThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. ![]() WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A splendid book. ![]()
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