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Reddit mentions of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy (1))
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Reddit mentions: 6
We found 6 Reddit mentions of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy (1)). Here are the top ones.
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| Length | 5.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | May 2007 |
| Weight | 1.25 Pounds |
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"An Army at Dawn" The Battle of Kasserine Pass is only a small part of the book, but it's a great read that I highly recommend. It really puts in perspective how ill prepared for war the US army was and how egocentric a lot of the general in the US and British armies were. It also shows how awful it would have been to be a soldier during it, e.g. walk 2 kilometers over open group towards a fortified hill and try to take it.... Great book.
Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn is pretty good.
I think I read in the truly excellent "An Army at Dawn" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805087249/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=aeebc627-7ecf-4129-8c0c-1d437f271eca&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=080508861X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=GE74JN245RCFKT338B2R&pf_rd_r=GE74JN245RCFKT338B2R&pf_rd_p=aeebc627-7ecf-4129-8c0c-1d437f271eca)
that Massachussets had a bunch of stockpiled 20 years old shells along. Which explains some of the problems early in the war.
I don't know about pictures, but the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson is fantastic and covers US involvement thoroughly.
Also the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Ron Rosenbaum is downright chilling. He actually lived in Nazi Germany.
Rick Atkinson has a trilogy of books he is working on about the US liberation of Europe in WW2. The first two are out and come highly recommended by many I speak with. I just started the second ("The Day of Battle") and can say it's pretty slick. The first book is called "An Army at Dawn."
Notice I said "de Gaulle" in my post, not "the French people". I got my information from actual books (maybe you've heard of them? Hey, if you can be condescending, so can I...) like An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle for instance. And no, it did not just become popular after 2001; see "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" (1995).
I appreciate that the people of France have virtually always been friendly to Americans, but the same is decidedly not true of the French government.