An Army at Dawn
OCLC 49383747 | | |
| Followed by | The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 | |
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 is a
Tunisia. Atkinson constructs his narrative from letters, newspaper articles, and personal diaries of commanders, soldiers, and others on the ground in northern Africa. The book discusses the battlefield failings and successes of American troops and their commanders and the larger context of the burgeoning cooperation between the Allied forces in World War II
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The book received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History.
An Army at Dawn is the first volume of The Liberation Trilogy. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944, published in 2007, is the second volume. The third and final volume, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945, was released on May 14, 2013.
References
- ^ Freedman, Lawrence D. (January–February 2003). "Alamein; An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved April 15, 2009.
External links
- Booknotes interview with Atkinson on An Army at Dawn, November 17, 2002
- Presentation by Atkinson on An Army at Dawn, October 4, 2003
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