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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawn--winner of the Pulitzer Prize--Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa Now in The Day of Battle he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July and then mile by bloody mile fight their way north toward RomeThe Italian campaigns outcome was never certain in fact Roosevelt Churchill and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea But once under way the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered despite the agonizingly high price The battles at Salerno Anzio and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal yet as the months passed the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark one of the wars most complex and controversial commanders American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient And with the liberation of Rome in June ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitableDrawing on a wide array of primary source material written with great drama and flair this is narrative history of the first rank With The Day of Battle Atkinson has once again given us the definitive account of one of historys most compelling military campaigns.
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Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of six works of narrative military history, including The Guns at Last Light, The Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. He also was the lead essayist in Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery, published by National Geographic. He was a reporter, foreign correspondent, war correspondent, and senior editor at The Washington Post for more than twenty years. His many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and history, the George Polk Award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He lives in Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit www.liberationtrilogy.com.
