Clark, one of the war's most complex commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly proficient. 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. 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. Now, in The Day of Battle, the second volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson 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. In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North African during World War II. "In the second volume of his acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. " is described by Rick Atkinson with a brilliance that makes his book one of the truly outstanding records of the Second World War." - Sir Michael Howard, The Times Literary Supplement (London).
The trilogy will stand in the uncrowded first rank of great World War II histories." - Philadelphia Inquirer.
Lucid and focused, The Day of Battle only whets the appetite for Atkinson's third installment. "Atkinson has a reporter's eye for the telling detail and a historian's sure grasp of the larger picture. never lets you forget what war did to the men who fought it." - The Boston Globe.
"A work of devastating artistry and narrative wonder. Anyone who devoured An Army at Dawn with relish will be delighted with Atkinson's account of the Sicilian and Italian campaign." - The New York Times Book Review. With this book, Rick Atkinson cements his place among America's great popular historians, in the tradition of Bruce Catton and Stephen Ambrose." - The Washington Post. 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. Illustrated with maps, two sections of black-and-white photographic plates, and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. Includes List of Other Books by Rick Atkinson Author Dedication Preliminary Page Quote by Virgil, The Aeneid List of Maps Map Legend Allied Chain of Command Prologue Epilogue Notes Selected Sources Acknowledgments Index and About the Author.
Fine unread condition lime green boards, forest green spine, and gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket.
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