Rick Atkinson
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Revolution trilogy volume 1
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"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
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Liberation trilogy volume 3
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It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its Allies vanquished Hitler and liberated Europe. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all - the titanic battle in Western Europe.
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Liberation trilogy volume 1
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The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. 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. Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn...
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Liberation trilogy volume 2
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New York Times best-selling author Rick Atkinson won the Pulitzer Prize for his riveting WWII chronicle An Army at Dawn. In The Day of Battle, he shifts his focus from northern Africa to the southern European front. Beginning with the invasion of Sicily, Allied forces worked their way through fierce fighting, cutting a swath through enemy lines on their way to Rome and victory.
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"A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe
**This program includes an original foreword, read by Rick Atkinson, and exclusive to the audiobook, as well as a bonus conversation between the author and Ty Seidule**
For more on Rick Atkinson's research and writing, please visit revolutiontrilogy.com
A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line
7) D-Day
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Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light, " tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
