Description
About the Author
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. His many other awards include two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, the George Polk award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. He is a former staff writer and senior editor at the Washington Post.
Reviews
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 I was hooked from the first page ... a gripping account BBC History
Book Information
ISBN 9780349140483
Author Rick Atkinson
Format Paperback
Page Count 896
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 650g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 127mm * 41mm