"An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943"
By Rick Atkinson
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. Atkinson emphasizes the importance of the events that unfolded in North Africa in 1942-1943 which were vital to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers, and the establishment of the United States as a world power.