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The Guns at Last Light

The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

The Guns at Last Light( 3 customer ratings | )
Author: Atkinson, Rick
Series title:Liberation Trilogy
ISBN:978-1-4104-5897-1
Publication Date:May 2013
Publisher:Thorndike Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $31.99
Book Description:

A New York Times Bestselling Author, A Pulitzer Prize- winning Author -- It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its Allies vanquished Hitler and liberated Europe. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American- led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all-- the titanic battle in Western Europe.

Book Details
Pages:1224
Detailed Subjects: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War Ii / European Theater
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.4 x 9.5 x 2.38 Inches
Book Weight:1.719 Pounds
Author Biography
Atkinson, Rick (Author)
Rick Atkinson holds a master of arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and military historian

Atkinson is the author of the highly-acclaimed Liberation Trilogy, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. Atkinson received the Pulitzer Prize for the first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. The second volume, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, drew praise as well.

Atkinson also received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to the Washington Post for a series of investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department. He is winner of the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, and the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College. In 2014 his title The Guns at Last Light made The New York Times Best Seller List.

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