Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume 1 of the "Liberation Trilogy." New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

The 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History praised Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume 1 of the "Liberation Trilogy": as a "monumental history of the overshadowed combat in North Africa during World War II that brings soldiers, generals, and bloody battles alive through masterful storytelling." It does that – and more – as it takes readers battle by battle through the U. S. and British campaign in North Africa, from Operation TORCH, the amphibious invasion of French Morocco and Algeria on November 8, 1942, to the hard-won victory in Tunisia on May 13, 1943, in a way that appeals to novices, pleases history buffs, and satisfies serious historians.
Atkinson argues that the North African campaign was a "pivot point in American history, the place where the United States began to act like a great power......

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