An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
- ISBN-10
- 0805062882
- ISBN-13
- 9780805062885
- Series
- An Army at Dawn
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 681
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-10-02
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Rick Atkinson
Description
The first volume in a three-volume work about the liberation of Europe opens in North Africa in 1942 and charts America's rise to world-power status by its involvement in a war on two fronts. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Long Gray Line 100,000 first printing.
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- 2007-05-15
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