About this title: In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how central the great drama that unfolded in North Africa was to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers and to America's understanding of itself.
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Description: Very Good. 0805074481 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages very good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Owl Books/Henry Holt & Co., New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780805074482ISBN:0805074481
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 681 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. New. Not a remainder. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. "Exceptional, " New York times Book Review. "Splendid book, " Washington Post Book World. "Brilliant, " Kansas City Str. Author was a writer and senior editor for 20 years at the Washington Post. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Almost as new. Very slight edgewear. No markings or spine creasing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 681 p. Contains: Illustrations. Liberation Trilogy, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Owl Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780805074482ISBN:0805074481
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners creased/ several page tips creased. read more
Description: Very Good. Owl Books, TPB, 2003. Clean, tight, very lightly used, no markings or highlighting, minor wear. Check my store for other military history titles. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. As new. No edgewear, markings or creasing. Pages bright and tight. First printing of this edition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 681 p. Contains: Illustrations. Liberation Trilogy, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. Owl Books, TPB, 2003. Clean, tight, very lightly used, no markings or highlighting, minor wear. Check my store for other military history titles. read more
Description: Good++ No Jacket Issued. "Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and surprising insights, " from the back cover. This is a soft cover trade paperback Military History book. The condition is Good++. c2003, reprint edition. This book has a clean cover and a smooth spine. There is light edge wear but very acceptable. The pages are clean & unmarked. 681 pages including index. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 681 p. Contains: Illustrations. Liberation Trilogy, 1. Audience: General/trade. THIS USED TRADE EDITION PAPERBACK CAME FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. THE BOOK IS IN NEAR NEW LIKE CONDITION. read more
"Atkinson pulls back and gives the wide angle on the North African campaign in WWII. This is such a big book in so many ways: its scope, its importance, and its size. It takes a long time to read, and the way that Atkinson tell the story, it is really only the first third of a triptych: North Africa, Italy, and Normandy to Germany.
Sometimes being slow is good. I think Atkinson strikes a great balance between giving the big picture of the war and occasionally zooming in for some telling or gripping details. He's balanced in his evaluation of the decisions; he doesn't seem to be grinding an ax the way some war history seems to be about the effectiveness of some particular officer or tactical decision. With Atkinson, you usually get both sides of the story.
One thing this book makes me realize is how many stories there are in an event as complicated as a war, even a single battle. One could very easily write a book (and of course thousands of such books have been written) about any one of these battles. But Atkinson gives enough of the close story while keeping his big story moving inexorably forward.
It may take me a while because this is consuming reading, especially for the sun of a WWII veteran, but I will definitely finish this trilogy."
"I found Army at Dawn to be an easy-to-read, very enjoyable account of America's involvement in North Africa... as Rick Atkinson clearly points out, this was the real-world testing and proving ground for the US Army's future engagements on the European continent. Much of the book reads like a novel. Powerful images of open desert and mountain warfare from all countries' perspectives. The hundreds of personal quotes from eyewitnesses bring more than just life to the book; it's as if this campaign occurred just a few weeks ago or is going on as you read the book. Of particular interest was the description of France's involvement; so much indecision in the early stages of this campaign! As I finish the last few pages of the book, I'm more interested than ever to read how the stage was set for the North African campaign... Italy and France's involvement in the 1930s in North Africa is still a mystery to me and one that I plan on reading about. Thanks Mr. Atkinson for fueling that interest! Overall, I highly recommend the book, especially to someone who is looking for a broad telling of US involvement, from the thousands of soldiers boarding ships without knowing their destination to final victory in Tunisia... along the way you'll "see" vivid descriptions of individual combat and day-to-day life experiences in North Africa. Highly recommended."
"This was an interesting book for me to read towards the end of my time at CSTC-A. I read this with a fellow officer and it led me to compare our Army of 1942 to the Afghan Army of 2009. It was interesting to me to see how the US Army grew and developed and to compare that to how the Afghan Army is growing and developing. I tend to come across the impression about the great US Army of WWII. Well, during TORCH it was clearly an army in training. Many of the basics were not so basic for us. From the top to the bottom we were learning. At the campaign level we were not good at visualizing the campaign with an operational endstate and then focusing all our tactical operations on achieving those operational objectives. We failed in this several times and it cost us many soldiers and several significant delays. At the tactical level we were not a combined arms army and we were not particularly skilled. The author argues that we liked a required level of hate to close with and kill the enemy. I am not certain about that theory yet. Our Army of today is not full of hate towards the enemy and yet we seem to close with and kill the enemy pretty well when we can find him. I am still not convinced by the author that hate was what made the difference. I look forward to reading the next books in the series."
"Volume one in this series, covering the US and British entry into Africa and the completion of the African campaigns. The focus is on Eisenhower and his growth, leading of course (but not in this book) to his earning the Normandy Invasion command.
The marvel in this story is in how little time Eisenhower and others mature (or fail to mature) into generals capable of leading massive armies. Maybe our Federal Reserve Chairman has gone through the same growth under pressure."
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