Liberation Trilogy: An Army at Dawn : The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Series #01) (Hardcover)

from Karlstar

This is an excellent overview of the US Army's role just prior to and through the invasion of North Africa. It includes the training and logistical problems of a major amphibious landing, the political issues, and the struggles of an army with very little experience. A very enlightening and thoro...

from Hedgepeth

6 stars out of 5! Atkinson has done an excellent job of making the history of the North African campaign understandable to the average reader. He has a knack for using broad details instead of minutiae to avoid losing his reader, yet supplying interesting details to keep the narrative from being ...

from meegeekai

WOW, this is a great book. Atkinson is becoming my next favorite WWII historian, after Ambrose. This is a great book, supposedly part of a triology, about the American entry into the North African campaign. Great writing. If you had to read one book on Operation Torch, this is it. Looking for com...

from Philip100

This is without a doubt the best book on WWII that I have ever read. Atkinson's writing is vivid and he uses only the details you need to have to understand what is happening. He pulls no punches he shows are great side and our bad side, it is the fact that he doesn't, whitewash our mistakes or h...

from jerry-book

An excellent portrayal of the American expeditionary Army in North Africa in WW II. I had seen the movie Patton many years ago. In that Patton talks about how the Germans whipped the American forces at the Battle of Kasserine Pass. Nonetheless, it was fascinating to discover how inept the USA was...