An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy, Vol 1)
 

An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy, Vol 1)

by Rick Atkinson

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... (read more)

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jugglingjon
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When Atkinson takes a step back and talks about the themes of north africa, the emergence of the American army, politics of the allies, and battle trends, this is a fascinating book. Unfortunately it gets a bit tedious describing battle to battle, I felt sometimes overloaded with names and places that I would only hear once. If you don't know much about north africa, like I didn't, then it's a great book to get; a very interesting topic by a skilled author.

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