An Army At Dawn

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa in this first volume of a monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. Atkinson's masterful account shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of this great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942-43. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.