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The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph- of calamity and miscalculation. 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.Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942- An Army at Dawn follows the British and American armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria- and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle- an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower- Patton- Bradley- Montgomery and Rommel....