NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Majestic... Atkinson's achievement is to marry prodigious
research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay
the whole with writing as powerful and elegant as any great
narrative of war." --"The Wall Street Journal
"In "An Army at Dawn"--winner of the Pulitzer Prize--Rick Atkinson
provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North
Africa during World War II. Now, in "The Day of Battle," he follows
the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily
in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north
toward Rome.
The decision to invade the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was
controversial, but once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy
from the Nazis never wavered. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, the
Rapido River, and Monte Cassino were particularly lethal, yet as
the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans
up the Italian peninsula. And with the liberation of Rome in June
1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable.
Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with
great drama and flair, "The Day of Battle" is a masterly account of
one of history's most compelling military campaigns.
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