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The Liberation Trilogy Box Set AN ARMY AT DAWN THE DAY OF BATTLE THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT Rick Atkinson The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Notice AN ARMY AT DAWN Praise Dedication Epigraph LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE 1. PASSAGE A Meeting wivth the Dutchman Gathering the Ships Rendezvous at Cherchel On the Knees of the Gods A Man Must Believe in His Luck 2. LANDING “In the Night, All Cats Are Grey” In Barbary VILLAIN To the Last Man “Glory Enough for Us All” 3. BEACHHEAD A Sword in Algiers A Blue Flag over Oran “An Orgy of Disorder” Battle for the Kasbah “It’s All Over for Now” PART TWO 4. PUSHING EAST “We Live in Tragic Hours” A Cold Country with a Hot Sun Medjez-el-Bab Fat Geese on a Pond 5. PRIMUS IN CARTHAGO “Go for the Swine with a Blithe Heart” “The Dead Salute the Gods” “Jerry Is Counterattacking!” 6. A COUNTRY OF DEFILES Longstop “They Shot the Little Son of a Bitch” “This Is the Hand of God” PART THREE 7. CASABLANCA The Ice-Cream Front Speedy Valley “The Touch of the World” The Sinners’ Concourse 8. A BITS AND PIECES WAR “Goats Set Out to Lure a Tiger” “This Can’t Happen to Us” “The Mortal Dangers That Beset Us” “A Good Night for a Mass Murder” 9. KASSERINE A Hostile Debouchment None Returned “Sometimes That Is Not Good Enough” “This Place Is Too Hot” “Order, Counter-order, and Disorder” “Lay Roughly on the Tanks” PART FOUR 10. THE WORLD WE KNEW IS A LONG TIME DEAD Vigil in Red Oak “We Know There’ll Be Troubles of Every Sort” “One Needs Luck in War” “The Devil Is Come Down” 11. OVER THE TOP “Give Them Some Steel!” “Search Your Soul” Night Closes Down “I Had a Plan…Now I Have None” 12. THE INNER KEEP Hell’s Corner Hammering Home the Cork “Count Your Children Now, Adolf!” Tunisgrad EPILOGUE PHOTOGRAPHS NOTES SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Copyright THE DAY OF BATTLE Dedication Epigraph LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE 1. ACROSS THE MIDDLE SEA Forcing the World Back to Reason Calypso’s Island “The Horses of the Sun” Death or Glory 2. THE BURNING SHORE Land of the Cyclops The Loss of Irrecoverable Hours “Tonight Wear White Pajamas” “The Dark World Is Not Far from Us” 3. AN ISLAND REDOUBT “Into Battle with Stout Hearts” “How I Love Wars” Snaring the Head Devil Fevers of an Unknown Origin A Great Grief “In a Place Like This” PART TWO 4. SALERNO “Risks Must Be Calculated” Plots, Counterplots, and Cross-plots The Stillest Shoes the World Could Boast The Moan of Lost Souls A Portal Won 5. CORPSE OF THE SIREN “I Give You Naples” “Watch Where You Step and Have No Curiosity at All” The Mountainous Hinterland “The Entire World Was Burning” 6. WINTER The Archangel Michael, Here and Everywhere “A Tank Too Big for the Village Square” A Gangster’s Battle Too Many Gone West PART THREE 7. A RIVER AND A ROCK Colonel Warden Makes a Plan “Nothing Was Right Except the Courage” The Show Must Go On 8. PERDITION “Something’s Happening” Through the Looking Glass Jerryland 9. THE MURDER SPACE This World and the Next World at Strife The Bitchhead “Man Is Distinguished from the Beasts” PART FOUR 10. FOUR HORSEMEN A Fairyland of Silver and Gold The Weight of Metal Dragonflies in the Sun 11. A KETTLE OF GRIEF Dead Country “Put the Fear of God into Them” “You Are All Brave. You Are All Gentlemen” “On the Eve of Great Things” 12. THE GREAT PRIZE Shaking Stars from the Heavens A Fifth Army Show The Cuckoo’s Song Expulsion of the Barbarians EPILOGUE PHOTOGRAPHS NOTES SELECTED SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX Copyright THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT Dedication Epigraph LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE 1. INVASION The Far Shore First Tide Hell’s Beach A Conqueror’s Paradise 2. LODGEMENT “This Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish” A Gunman’s World Terror Is Broken by Terror How Easy It Is to Make a Ghost 3. LIBERATION A Monstrous Blood-Mill The Bright Day Grew Dark Ministers of Thy Chastisement The Loveliest Story of Our Time PART TWO 4. PURSUIT “The Huntsman Is Hungry” The Avenue of Stenches “Harden the Heart and Let Fly” 5. AGAINST THE WEST WALL “Five Barley Loaves and Three Small Fishes” Every Village a Fortress A Market and a Garden The Arrow That Flieth by Day 6. THE IMPLICATED WOODS Charlemagne’s Tomb “Do Not Let Us Pretend We Are All Right” The Worst Place of Any PART THREE 7. THE FLUTTER OF WINGS A Town Too Small for the Tragedy Faith in a Friendly Universe To the Land of Doom “Providence Decrees and We Must Obey” 8. A WINTER SHADOW “We Are All So Human That It Is Pitiful” Staking Everything on One Card The Light Line “Go Easy, Boys. There’s Danger Ahead” 9. THE BULGE A Rendezvous in Some Flaming Town “Why Are You Not Packing?” War in the Raw Glory Has Its Price The Agony Grapevine PART FOUR 10. ARGONAUTS Citizens of the World A Fateful Conference “Only Our Eyes Are Alive” 11. CROSSINGS The Inner Door to Germany Two If by Sea “The Enemy Has Reason to Fear Him” Lovers’ Quarrels Are a Part of Love 12. VICTORY Mark of the Beast Dragon Country “God, Where Are You?” A Great Silence EPILOGUE PHOTOGRAPHS NOTES SELECTED SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE AUTHOR Also by Rick Atkinson
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