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The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinsons Liberation Trilogy is now together in one boxed set

From the War in North Africa to the Invasion of Normandy, the Liberation Trilogy recounts the hard fought battles that led to Allied victory in World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Rick Atkinson brings great drama and exquisite detail to the retelling of these battles and gives life to a cast of characters, from the Allied leaders to rifleman in combat. His accomplishment is monumental: the Liberation Trilogy is the most vividly told, brilliantly researched World War II narrative to date.

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The Liberation Trilogy Box Set
AN ARMY AT DAWN
THE DAY OF BATTLE
THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT
Rick Atkinson

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An Army at Dawn

THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA, 19421943

VOLUME ONE OF THE LIBERATION TRILOGY

Rick Atkinson
Praise for
An Army at Dawn

A monumental history of the overshadowed combat in North Africa during World War II that brings soldiers, generals, and bloody battles alive through masterful storytelling.

citation for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History

A book that stands shoulder to shoulder with the other major books about the war, such as the fine writing of Cornelius Ryan and John Keegan.

Associated Press

Atkinsons writing is lucid, vivid. Among the many pleasures of An Army at Dawn are the carefully placed detailsshells that whistle into the water with a smoky hiss; a colonel with slicked hair and a wolfish mustache a man dying before he can fire the pistols strapped in his holster.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

One of the most compelling pieces of military history Ive ever read, An Army at Dawn will become a military history and strategy studies classic. Atkinson writes with incredible insight and mastery of the details, and he is always mindful of the larger picture. He goes from the highest political levels to the deepest foxhole without missing a beat. This is history at its finest.

General Wesley K. Clark, U.S.A. (ret.), former NATO supreme commander

An engrossing narrativeAtkinson has an impressive command of words, a flair for simplifying complex issues, and a vast reservoir of information. This is a fascinating work which any reader can enjoy, and professional historians will find perusal of it eminently worth their while.

Arthur L. Funk, Journal of Military History

A masterpiece. Rick Atkinson strikes the right balance between minor tactical engagements and high strategic direction, and he brings soldiers at every level to life, from private to general. An Army at Dawn is history with a soldiers face.

General Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S.A. (ret.), former Army chief of staff

What distinguishes his narrative is the way he fuses the generals warwith the experiences of front-line combat soldiers.

Raleigh News & Observer

Atkinsons book is eminently friendly and readable, but without compromising normal standards of accuracy and objectivity. More than a military history, it is a social and psychological inquiry as well. His account of the Kasserine Pass disaster alone is worth the price of the book and stands as an exciting preview of the rich volumes to come. I heartily recommend this human, sensitive, unpretentious work.

Paul Fussell, author of Doing Battle and Wartime

Rick Atkinsons An Army at Dawn is a superb account of the Allied invasion of North Africa. From the foxhole to Eisenhowers supreme headquarters, Atkinson has captured the essence of war in one of the most neglected campaigns of World War II.

Carlo DEste, author of Patton and Eisenhower

Given his success with modern military history, the penetrating historical insights Atkinson brings to bear on Americas 194243 invasion of the North African coast are not surprising. The most thorough and satisfying history yet of the campaigns in North Africa.

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

This is a wonderful bookpopular history at its best. It is impressively researched and superbly written, and it brings to life in full detail one of the vitally important but relatively forgotten campaigns of World War II. What Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote did for the Civil War in their trilogies, Rick Atkinson is doing for World War II in the European Theater.

Professor Mark A. Stoler, author of Allies and Adversaries

Atkinsons book puts him on a fast track toward becoming one of our most ambitious and distinguished military chroniclers.[He] has unpacked facts that will lift many eyebrows.

Bookpage

For sheer drama, the Tunisian campaign far overshadowed any other phase of the Second World War. Rick Atkinson has told the story with zest and brutal realism. His account will be a monument among accounts of World War II.

John S. D. Eisenhower, author of Allies and The Bitter Woods

An Army at Dawn is an absolute masterpiece. Atkinson conveys both the human drama and historical significance of this campaign with a power and intensity that is nothing short of electrifying. This book is storytellingand historyat its most riveting.

Andrew Carroll, editor of War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

Rick Atkinson has done a beautiful job of research and writing in An Army at Dawn . This is the North African campaignwarts, snafus, feuding allies, incompetents, barely competentsunvarnished. It whets my appetite for the rest of the Liberation Trilogy Atkinson has promised us.

Joseph L. Galloway, coauthor of We Were Soldiers Onceand Young

Rick Atkinson combines meticulous research and attention to detail with an extraordinary ability to tell a story. It is a rich and powerful narrative which is certain to become a classic.

Ronald Spector, author of At War at Sea and Eagle against the Sun

An Army at Dawn

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To my mother and father

At last the armies clashed at one strategic point,

They slammed their shields together, pike scraped pike

With the grappling strength of fighters armed in bronze

And their round shields pounded, boss on welded boss,

And the sound of struggle roared and rocked the earth.

The Iliad, Book 4

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P ROLOGUE

T WENTY-SEVEN acres of headstones fill the American military cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia. There are no obelisks, no tombs, no ostentatious monuments, just 2,841 bone-white marble markers, two feet high and arrayed in ranks as straight as gunshots. Only the chiseled names and dates of death suggest singularity. Four sets of brothers lie side by side. Some 240 stones are inscribed with thirteen of the saddest words in our language: Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God. A long limestone wall contains the names of another 3,724 men still missing, and a benediction: Into Thy hands, O Lord.

This is an ancient place, built on the ruins of Roman Carthage and a stones throw from the even older Punic city. It is incomparably serene. The scents of eucalyptus and of the briny Mediterranean barely two miles away carry on the morning air, and the African light is flat and shimmering, as if worked by a silversmith. Tunisian lovers stroll hand in hand across the kikuyu grass or sit on benches in the bowers, framed by orangeberry and scarlet hibiscus. Cypress and Russian olive trees ring the yard, with scattered acacia and Aleppo pine and Jerusalem thorn. A carillon plays hymns on the hour, and the chimes sometimes mingle with a muezzins call to prayer from a nearby minaret. Another wall is inscribed with the battles where these boys died in 1942 and 1943Casablanca, Algiers, Oran, Kasserine, El Guettar, Sidi Nsir, Bizertealong with a line from Shelleys Adonais: He has outsoared the shadow of our night.

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