![]() ![]() Drama, the absurd, and the desperately sad weave throughout the narrative. Atkinson takes readers through battles large and small, strategy as well as on-the-ground tactics, accompanied by vivid maps (courtesy of “master cartographer” Gene Thorp). ![]() Excerpts from the letters of dead soldiers on both sides, as well as from the diaries of captain generals, fill out the story. Though lacking an overall theme, the book is distinguished by its astonishing range of coverage-peopling the pages are German, British, French, Canadian, and (primarily) American generals and common soldiers. Adding to the trunkful of extended WWII histories by the likes of Sir Max Hastings, Andrew Roberts, Martin Gilbert, John Keegan, and Norman Davies, Atkinson, winner of two Pulitzers (for An Army at Dawn, the first in the Liberation Trilogy, and for reporting), concludes his series on the war in Europe and North Africa with this superb work. ![]()
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