Back to Blog
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson5/10/2023 ![]() 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. 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. ![]() Casualties mount rapidly, battle plans prove ineffectual, and hope for a quick and decisive victory evaporates. ![]() 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. After three days of hard fighting against the French, American and British troops push deeper into North Africa. 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 19.Ītkinson's narrative begins on the eve of Operation TORCH, the daring amphibious invasion of Morocco and Algeria. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |