| The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Contributor(s): Atkinson, Rick (Author) |
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ISBN: 080508861X ISBN-13: 9780805088618 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $24.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Europe - Italy - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 940.542 |
| Series: Liberation Trilogy |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (1.35 lbs) 848 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Mediterranean - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Majestic... Atkinson's achievement is to marry prodigious research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay the whole with writing as powerful and elegant as any great narrative of war. --The Wall Street Journal In An Army at Dawn--winner of the Pulitzer Prize--Rick Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa during World War II. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. The decision to invade the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was controversial, but once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, the Rapido River, and Monte Cassino were particularly lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, The Day of Battle is a masterly account of one of history's most compelling military campaigns. |
Contributor Bio(s): Atkinson, Rick: - Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy--An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light--as well as The Long Gray Line and other books. His many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism. A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C. |