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(0)Rick Atkinson
Author
Series
Liberation trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns. In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two months later, and then fight their way, mile by bloody mile, north toward Rome. The Italian campaign's...
Author
Series
Liberation trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
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. An Army at Dawn 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...
Author
Series
Revolution trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Language
English
Description
"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Tells the dramatic story of the titanic battle for Western Europe from D-Day to the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich.
This book is the magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II. It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media's access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war. Crusade follows the unfolding battle from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs and White House...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Square Fish edition : 2015.
Lexile measure
NC 1290L
Physical Desc
xviii, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
NC 1270L
Physical Desc
xvi, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the Battle of the Bulge, Nazi Germany's last concerted attempt to halt the American Army advance in Europe.
10) D-Day
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
NC 1290L
Physical Desc
xviii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 318
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 974 pages, 88 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany.
A Bridge Too Far is...
Publisher
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collected here for the first time are key works by this century's leading military historians, all recipients of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The Pritzker Literature Award honors writers whose work adds to the public's understanding of military history and the role played by the military in civil society. In the tradition of historians dating back to ancient times, these authors...
