Ebook {Epub PDF} An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, by Rick Atkinson shows the North African military campaign to have been the training ground for American generals and armed forces. With the conclusion of the campaign, Hitler and the Axis powers had lost strategic significance, France had returned to the Allied fold and within the Allied forces a shift of power had taken place, leadership had /5(K). An account of the World War II campaign in Morocco and Algeria. Operation Torch, as it was called, became a proving ground where American officers learned to lead, soldiers learned to hate, and an entire army learned what it would take to defeat a formidable enemy. Pulitzer Prize for History, User Interaction Count:  · In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of 4/5(5).

In this first volume of the 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 and Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November , An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies. An Army at Dawn The War in North Africa, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History Winner of the AHF Distinguished Writing Award for U.S. Army History In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Eu. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, , Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy Rick Atkinson out of 5 stars (1,).

In this first volume of the 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. In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 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. Now, sixty years after America joined this titanic struggle, 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 and Atkinson's narrative begins on the eve of Operation TORCH, the daring amphibious invasion of Morocco and Algeria.