The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 - Couverture rigide

Atkinson, Rick

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ISBN 10 : 0805062904 ISBN 13 : 9780805062908

Editeur : Henry Holt & Company, 2013

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The eagerly awaited final volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson's New York Times bestselling Liberation Trilogy.

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 the history of how the American-led coalition fought its way from North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most ?dramatic story of all—the titanic battle in Western Europe.

D-Day marked the commencement of the war’s final campaign, and Atkinson’s astonishingly fresh account of that enormous gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic moments come utterly alive. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at all levels, from presidents and prime?ministers to ambitious generals, from war-weary lieutenants to terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the awe-inspiring effort that led to Germany’s?surrender.

With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Rick Atkinson’s remarkable accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that restored freedom to the West. His lively, occasionally lyric prose brings the vast theater of battle, from the beaches of Normandy deep into Germany, brilliantly alive. It is hard to imagine a better history of the western front’s final phase.

Revue de presse :

As one might expect from a Pulitzer Prize winning author, it is written with verve and panache . . . highly recommended (Military History)

Easily the best history of the Second World War in western Europe that I have ever read (History Today)

The Guns at Last Light tells [the story from D-Day to VE-Day] brilliantly . . . fascinating (Choice Magazine)

A stirring final volume of a monumental trilogy, this book completes a definitive chronicle of the Second World War (Military History)

[Atkinson's] storytelling verve and infectious, boyish enthusiasm swept me up and carried me along from D-Day in June 1944, all the way through Normandy, Paris, Arnhem and the Bulge to the final apocalyptic reckoning ... gripping and harrowing ... for sheer relentless readability, Atkinson is hard to beat. (Telegraph)

I was hooked from the first page . . . a gripping account (BBC History)

For history buffs or anyone interested in how men react in extremis ... top storytelling (Antony Beevor Mail on Sunday) --Mail on Sunday

as fast and furious as the conflict it describes (The Times) --The Times

Superbly researched . . . an epic tale in Atkinson's expert hands. He never stoops to breathless prose in this perfectly paced account, and he always comes up with fresh and revealing details (Antony Beevor Sunday Times) --Sunday Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Henry Holt & Company
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0805062904
• ISBN 13: 9780805062908
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 896