The Guns at Last Light
The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
$36.62
- Paperback
896 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2015
Summary
In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all - the titanic battle for Western Europe.
D-Day marked the commencement of the European war’s final campaign, and Atkinson’s riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberatio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349140483 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349140480 |
| Author: | Rick Atkinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 896 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Liberation Trilogy |
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[Atkinson’s] storytelling verve and infectious, boyish enthusiasm swept me up and carried me along from D-Day in June 1944, all the way through Normandy, Paris, Arnhem and the Bulge to the final apocalyptic reckoning… gripping and harrowing… for sheer relentless readability, Atkinson is hard to beat - Telegraph
For history buffs or anyone interested in how men react in extremis… top storytelling - Mail on SundayAs fast and furious as the conflict it describes - The TimesAbout The Author
Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. His many other awards include two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, the George Polk award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. He is a former staff writer and senior editor at the Washington Post.
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