The Guns at Last Light - Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Rick Atkinson's new book on the final months of WWII (AUDIO)

9780805062908_custom-1a6726df45b0775da6809e6dd65977262d795539-s2Pulitzer Prize winning Historian Rick Atkinson’s new book The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, completing his ‘liberation trilogy’ on the second world war.

‘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. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory.’

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