The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (1949).Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto (1948).Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III (1947).Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (1945).The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (1944).Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (1943).Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech (1942).The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (1941).Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1940).A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (1939).The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938).The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937).A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C.The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (1935).The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (1934).The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J.My Experiences in the World War by John J.The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E.The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (1929).Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington (1928).Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927).A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1926).History of the American Frontier by Frederic L.The American Revolution by Charles Howard McIlwain (1924).The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (1923).The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (1922).The Victory at Sea by William Sims and Burton J.The third and final volume, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945, was released on May 14, 2013. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944, published in 2007, is the second volume. The book received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History.Īn Army at Dawn is the first volume of The Liberation Trilogy. The book discusses the battlefield failings and successes of American troops and their commanders and the larger context of the burgeoning cooperation between the Allied forces in World War II. Atkinson constructs his narrative from letters, newspaper articles, and personal diaries of commanders, soldiers, and others on the ground in northern Africa. The book follows the early planning stages of the Allied invasion ( Operation Torch) of North Africa, the landings in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers, and finally the back and forth struggle for dominance in Tunisia. The book is a history of the North African Campaign, particularly focused on the role of the United States military. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944Īn Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written in 2002 by long-time Washington Post correspondent Rick Atkinson.

The guns at last light by rick atkinson