the first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, in which Mr. the invasion of North Africa in World War II. “In his gripping An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson skilfully chronicles. This vivid, personality-driven account of the campaign to drive Axis forces from North Africa shows the political side of waging war, even at the tactical level.” - Chicago Tribune

A highly pleasurable read.” - The New York Times Book Review A work strong in narrative flow and character portraits of the principle commanders. The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war.” - The Washington Post Book World Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.īrilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. 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.īeginning 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. 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. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. 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. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson