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| Adam Pellman is reading The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson |
This book is the second in what is called the "Liberation Trilogy," Rick Atkinson's sprawling history of the Allied effort to liberate Europe during World War II. The first book in the trilogy chronicled the war in North Africa, and this second volume details the invasions of Sicily and Italy, and the costly Allied campaign to drive the Germans north through Italy and to liberate Rome. Atkinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian, and he writes eloquently and in great detail about his subject, drawing from a wealth of primary source material that really brings the personalities and events of these military campaigns to life. This book also serves as a bracing reminder about the horrible costs of war, not just in terms of the loss of life among military personnel, but also in terms of casualties in civilian populations, and in terms of widespread destruction of property.
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