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27%OFFRick Atkinson - The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Liberation Trilogy) - 9780349116358 - V9780349116358
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The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Liberation Trilogy)

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Description for The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Liberation Trilogy) Paperback. The second volume of Rick Atkinson's monumental trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the Second World War. Series: Liberation Trilogy. Num Pages: 816 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 40. Weight in Grams: 562.
In 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 the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north. The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill and their military advisors engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once underway, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Liberation Trilogy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116358
SKU
V9780349116358
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About Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of AN ARMY AT DAWN, THE LONG GRAY LINE, IN THE COMPANY OF SOLDIERS and CRUSADE. His many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and history. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews for The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 (Liberation Trilogy)
Majestic... Atkinson's achievement is to marry prodigious research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay the whole with writing as powerful and elegant as any great narrative of war.
The Wall Street Journal A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sights and sounds of ... Read more

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