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Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson''s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II
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 the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now, in The Guns at Last Light, he tells the most dramatic story of allthe 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
