The Day of Battle
The War in Sicily and Italy, 19431944 (The Liberation Trilogy)
by Rick Atkinson
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appears in World War 2, History, and Nonfiction.
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 JournalIn An Army at Dawnwinner of the Pulitzer PrizeRick Atkinson provided an authoritative history...
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appears in World War 2, History, and Nonfiction.
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