The Liberation Trilogy: The Guns at Last Light : The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Series #3) (Paperback)

from whitrichardson

Atkinson's final installment of his Liberation trilogy does not disappoint. Just as his two previous books covered the U.S. Army's operations in North Africa, Sicily and the Italian mainland, THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT leads readers through the harrowing battles of the Normandy hedgerows, the Ardenne...

from jamespurcell

An excellent finish to a great trilogy. Good story well told with broad strokes for the strategic view and vivid personal vignettes for detail and insight. Hopefully, Atlkinson is well underway with a parallel series for the Pacific. His culminating series could be one on the painful, costly disc...

from labdaddy4

Excellent - detailed - thorough - this is one of the best works of history I have ever read. An amazing look into the personalities and interactions of all the major allied (western) generals. At the same time the author takes you into the lives of the "grunts", junior officers, and non-coms. I i...

from RoseCityReader

With The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 Rick Atkinson completes his esteemed World War II "Liberation Trilogy." As with the first two volumes, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 and The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, Atkinson focu...

from mrpotter

If you enjoyed the first two books in the trilogy, you are going to buy this book regardless.The same format is used in this final piece. This is not an all encompassing history of WWII. This is the American perspective, in Europe during WWII. Churchill and Monty make appearances, but the focus i...