The Guns at Last Light

Resumen del libro

It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how they fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all the titanic battle for Western Europe.

D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West.

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).