An Army at Dawn

Resumen del libro

The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, 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 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.

Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.

Biografía del autor

Rick Atkinson (1952) fue redactor y más tarde editor en The Washington Post durante más de veinte años, y sus trabajos han merecido cuatro premios Pulitzer por su labor histórica y periodística. Entre sus obras figuran los bestsellers: The Long Gray Line. The American Journey ofWest Pointx{0026} x02019;s Class of 1966 (1989), Crusade. The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War(1993) o In the Company of Soldiers. A Chronicle of Combat (2005). La Trilogía de la Liberación le ha valido los mayores reconocimientos internacionales: Un ejército al amanecer. La guerra en el Norte de Africa, 1942-1943 (Crítica, 2004) x{0026} x02014;fue ganador del premio Pulitzerx{0026} x02014;, El día de la batalla. La Guerra en Sicilia y en Italia, 1943-1944 (Crítica, 2008) y Los cañones del atardecer. La guerra en Europa, 1944-1945 (Crítica, 2014).