His The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 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 he tells the most dramatic story of all the titanic battle for Western Europe.
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.
