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Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Rick Atkinson has 1 media appearance. Rick Atkinson Rick Atkinson discusses An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. —from the publisher's website In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. Now, sixty years after America joined this titanic struggle, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Atkinson's narrative begins on the eve of Operation TORCH, the daring amphibious invasion of Morocco and Algeria. After three days of hard fighting against the French, American and British troops push deeper into North Africa. But the confidence gained after several early victories soon wanes; once Allied forces engage the Germans, it becomes apparent that they have more than met their match. Casualties mount rapidly, battle plans prove ineffectual, and hope for a quick and decisive victory evaporates. The Allies -- particularly the Americans -- discover that they are woefully unprepared to fight and win this war, in part due to lack of experience, in part due to an unwillingness to pay the necessary price in blood. North Africa then becomes a proving ground: it is here that American officers learn how to lead, here that soldiers learn how to hate, here that an entire army learns what it will take vanquish a formidable enemy. Most of the West's great battle captains emerged in North Africa, including men whose names remain familiar generations later -- Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and Montgomery. Atkinson brings these commanders and others vividly to life, along with enemy generals such as Rommel and Kesselring. He also takes us right to the front lines of every major battle -- from Oran to Kasserine to Tunis -- and his gripping accounts of soldiers fighting and dying makes the war horrifyingly real. Gradually, we come to understand the profound accomplishments of this bloody campaign. In North Africa, the Allied coalition came into its own, the enemy forever lost the initiative, and the United States -- for the first time -- began to act like a great power. Even as he weaves a compelling narrative of a heroic victory, Atkinson casts a clear eye on the dark tragedies that haunt every war. The first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army At Dawn is history of the highest order -- brilliantly researched, rich with new material and surprising insights, the deeply human story of a monumental battle for the future of civilization. (timspalding)… (more) Rick Atkinson has 2 past events. (show) RICK ATKINSON -- Luncheon at The Union League Club RICK ATKINSON The Guns at Last Light The author talks about the final volume in his Liberation Trilogy, which began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and continued with The Day of Battle. His latest is his much-anticipated telling of the story of the titanic battle for Western Europe at the end of World War II. Location: Street: Luncheon at The Union League Club City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Rick Atkinson - My Bookstore Atkinson, D.C.-based author of Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn, and other works, is one of seventy-six contributors to this anthology of essays, odes, and tributes to the special relationship between writers and their local bookstores. Edited by Ronald Rice, a publishing industry veteran, this collection is a heartfelt celebration of the vital joys of browsing, perusing, and community spirit unique to independent bookshops. Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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