The Liberation Trilogy Box Set
Rick Atkinson
Language: English
Pages: 2798
ISBN: 2:00262381
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is now together in one boxed set
The Army at Dawn
The Day of Battle
Guns at Last Light
From the War in North Africa to the Invasion of Normandy, the Liberation Trilogy recounts the hard fought battles that led to Allied victory in World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Rick Atkinson brings great drama and exquisite detail to the retelling of these battles and gives life to a cast of characters, from the Allied leaders to rifleman in combat. His accomplishment is monumental: the Liberation Trilogy is the most vividly told, brilliantly researched World War II narrative to date.
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Brief History of the Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis
Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (Jewish Cultures of the World)
and barked, “Going to fuck up another front, I suppose?” And Tommies at mess sang a new ditty: Our cousins regret they’re unable to stay For the Germans are giving them hell. Eisenhower was both depressed and angry. The undeniable defects in American combat skills, while hardly as irredeemable as British caricatures suggested, left him feeling as low as “whale tracks at the bottom of the sea,” Patton reported. The failure of military censors to suppress the damaging reports in Time and
200 or more flights a day—organized in wave-skimming convoys called Pulks—carried men and matériel to Africa. The Allies responded, beginning on April 5, with Operation FLAX, a series of ruthless fighter sweeps and bombing raids. On their first FLAX mission, U.S. pilots bushwacked fifty Ju-52 transports and their escorts; in what was described as a “general air mêlée,” seventeen German aircraft were shot down at a cost of two American planes. Bombers also dropped nearly 11,000 twenty-pound
Commander, 123–25 (“stupid questions” and “party is all yours”); E. N. Harmon, OH, Sept. 15, 1952, SM, MHI. If outwardly gracious: OW, OH, May 5, 1957, FCP, MHI (chief of staff); PMR to OW, Apr. 20, 1943, PMR, GCM Lib, box 12 (“deepest gratitude”); OW, DSC awards packet, NARA RG 338, Fifth Army, A 47-A-3948, box 56. Ward was a good soldier: OW to L. E. Oliver, Sept. 27, 1943, OW, MHI (“My record”); Boatner, 599; DDE quoted in GCM to OW, May 5, 1943, Pentagon office correspondence, GCM Lib, box
Command. FMS, D-012. ———. “Studies on the Mareth Position.” N.d. U.S. Army European Command. FMS, D-046. Lang, Rudolf. “Battles of Kampfgruppe Lang in Tunisia.” 1947. US. Army European Command. FMS, D-173. ———. “Report on the Fighting of Kampfgruppe Lang.” Part II. N.d. U.S. Army European Command. FMS, D-166. Lange, Herman Walter Wright. “The Battle of Thala.” Thesis. George Washington University, 1966. Larson, Ann, ed. “The History and Contribution to American Democracy of Volunteer
their passing. Captain George H. Revelle, Jr., of the 3rd Infantry Division, in a letter to his wife written while bound for Sicily, acknowledged “the chiselers, slackers, people who believe we are suckers for the munitions makers, and all the intellectual hodgepodge looking at war cynically.” In some measure, he wrote on July 7, he was “fighting for their right to be hypocrites.” But there was also a broader reason, suffused with a melancholy nobility. “We little people,” Revelle told her,
