The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 [Paperback]

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 how they fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of allthe titanic battle for Western Europe.

D-Day marked the commencement of the European war's final campaign, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reichall these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. WithTheGuns at Last Light, the stirring #1New York Timesbestseller and final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West.

Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author ofAn Army at Dawn(winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history),The Day of Battle,The Long Gray Line,In the Company of Soldiers, andCrusade. His many other awards include a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, the George Polk award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. A former staff writer and senior editor atThe Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C.

A magnificent book...[Atkinson] is an absolute master of his material. Max Hastings, The Wall Street Journal

A tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity...The Liberation Trilogy is a monumental achievement, about 2,500 pages in all, densely researched but supremely readable. The New York Times Book Review

Breathtaking, unforgettable...This volume is a literary triumph l“W