An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

Dates Covered: 1942 - 1943
ISBN: 0805062882
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Our Take

Impossible to put down, this amazing chronicle of the liberation of North Africa is a war history book that doesn't turn its participants into flags on maps. Pulitzer prize-winning author Rick Atkinson starts the book with a graveyard in Tunisia, pondering private moments of death made anonymous by acres of "government issued tombstones." From this highly personal beginning, he takes us on a well narrated tale of both the strategy and the trivia of a turning point in the twentieth century's defining conflict. History House can't wait for volumes two and three of the promised "Liberation Trilogy." Visit the book's official site with cool interactive maps, excerpts, and an interview with the author.

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