An Army at Dawn
The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson · first published 2002
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The liberation of Europe and defeat of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. Sixty years after America joined the struggle, Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the Allied victory without a grasp of what unfolded in North Africa in 1942-943, where American officers learned how to lead, soldiers learned how to hate, and an army learned what it takes to vanquish a formidable enemy.
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…also delayed the advance. Not many people know that in the early days of our involvement in the war many of our troops were killed by the French! For those interested, a great introductory read is An Army At Dawn, by Rick Atkinson.
on “The Quest for Fuel in World War II (1993)” ↗…simple, straightforward book on personal finance. He advocates having your money automatically distributed into fixed costs, investments and spending money rather than getting bogged down in budgets. An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson is the first in a trilogy that chronicles America's entrance into World War II in North Africa, all the way to the downfall of the Third Reich. His style is both minutely researched and…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗Also a fair point, it was interesting to read "An Army At Dawn" by Rick Atkinson: generally most of the books on WWII that I'd read were by British authors, and there was a definite change of viewpoint (or bias) when reading an American author.
on “How to get bias into a Wikipedia article” ↗