An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 » (REV)

Rick Atkinson was a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post for twenty years. His most recent assignment was covering the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. He is the bestselling author of The Long Gray Line and Crusade. His many awards include Pulitzer prizes in journalism and history. He lives in Washington, D.C.

The successful liberation of Europe from the Third Reich by the Allied powers could not have occurred without the perilous drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Now Rick Atkinson provides listeners with the definitive account of the war in North Africa that is vividly recounted, meticulously sourced, and as compelling as it is authoritative. Listeners follow the Americans and British in their seven-month struggle against the Axis armies in Tunisia, which leads from the failed assault at Longstop Hill, to the debacle at Kasserine Pass, and finally to the Allied victory and surrender of quarter million German and Italian troops in May 1943.

John S. D. Eisenhower

. . . His account will be a monument among accounts of World War II.