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The eagerly anticipated final volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson's New York Times best-selling Liberation Trilogy. It is the 20th century's unrivaled epic: At a staggering price, the United States and its own allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. Inside the first two volumes of his best-selling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted the history of how the American-led coalition fought its way from North Africa and Italy to the threshold of success. Now he tells the most remarkable story of all - the titanic battle in Western Europe. D-Day proclaimed the commencement of the war's final marketing campaign, and Atkinson's astonishingly fresh bank account of that tremendous gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that employs. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the catastrophe that was Market Garden, the horrific Challenge of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich - all these historic moments come absolutely alive. Atkinson tells the story from the perspective of participants whatsoever levels, from presidents and excellent ministers to ambitious generals, from war-weary lieutenants to terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany finally surrenders, we understand anew both devastating cost of the global conflagration and the awe-inspiring effort that led to Germany's surrender. While using stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Rick Atkinson's impressive accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the battle that restored flexibility to the Western world. His lively, occasionally lyric prose brings the huge theater of battle, from the seashores of Normandy deep into Germany, brilliantly alive. It really is hard to imagine a better history of the american front's final stage.
