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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 |
by: Rick Atkinson
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780316725095
ISBN: 0316725099
Label: Little, Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: January 30, 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown
Studio: Little, Brown
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Amazon.com Review:
In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the initiative" and the "fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved." Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous cross-channel invasion of France and served as a grueling "testing ground" for an as-yet inexperienced American army. Lastly, by relegating Great Britain to what Atkinson calls the status of "junior partner" in the war effort, North Africa marked the beginning of American geopolitical hegemony. Although his prose is occasionally overwrought, Atkinson's account is a superior one, an agile, well-informed mix of informed strategic overview and intimate battlefield-and-barracks anecdotes. (Tobacco-starved soldiers took to smoking cigarettes made of toilet paper and eucalyptus leaves.) Especially interesting are Atkinson's straightforward accounts of the many "feuds, tiffs and spats" among British and American commanders, politicians, and strategists and his honest assessments of their--and their soldiers'--performance and behavior, for better and for worse. This is an engrossing, extremely accessible account of a grim and too-often overlooked military campaign. --H. O'Billovich
Product Description:
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of his "Liberation Trilogy", Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, "An Army at Dawn" follows the British and American armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery and Rommel.
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- An Army At DawnOutstanding account of invasion of North Africa 1943. Well researched and written with an engrossing style. I have purchased other Atkinson books and they are all outstading historical narratives written in a manner that one can sense both the overall stratgic as well as human war experinces.
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- US Army and its WWII baptismA in depth and fair treatment of all the partys involved in Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.
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- Good ReadThis book is a good read for history buff or just the regular person wanting to know more about WWII
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- It's a Page TurnerOutstanding. Tight writing moves the narrative along quickly, with plenty of fascinating information. The initial incompetence of the American war effort is second only to the perpetual incompetence of the French. Eisenhower and Patton learn the ropes. Highly recommended. (I have the Kindle version, and the maps are illegible.)
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- A terrific book. I was very disappointed in one of Atkinson's later books (In the Company of Soldiers), in which his Washington Post political POV was evident throughout, but this one is top drawer. Any WWII reader or armchair general will thoroughly enjoy it.
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