Day of Battle

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy . In An Army at Dawnwinner of the Pulitzer PrizeRick Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa during World War II. Now in The Day of Battle he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then mile by bloody mile fight their way north toward Rome.. The decision to invade the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was controversial but once under way the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered. The battles at Salerno Anzio the Rapido River and Monte Cassino were particularly lethal yet as the months passed the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944 ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable.. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material written with great drama and flair The Day of Battle is a masterly account of one of history''s most compelling military campaigns.