Guns at Last Light
The last year of the war in western Europe, from D-Day to victory, told through the people who fought it.
The final volume of Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy, covering the war in western Europe from the D-Day landings in 1944 to the German surrender in 1945. Atkinson tells the story through soldiers and commanders alike, and makes the scale of the campaign human through their letters and memories.
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Morgan Housel
Guns at Last Light is the best World War II book I’ve read, and explains the most important event in modern history through human stories rather than bland statistics.
Article · May 2017
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