Readers and fans will delight in The Guns at Last Light.Īs in his first two volumes, An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle, Atkinson’s strength is rooted in his crisp narrative drive, prodigious research and incisive analysis of people and events.Ītkinson’s latest work is probably the single best volume about the war in Europe from the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, to the capitulation of German forces a little more than 11 months later, on VE Day.
In addressing American veterans of World War II in 2001, Michael DiPaulo, a French consular officer, remarked, “We live in a free world today because in 1945 the forces of imperfect goodness defeated the forces of near-perfect evil.” Nothing could be further from the truth, particularly in the capable hand of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson’s latest and final installment of his celebrated Liberation Trilogy.
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