![]() Lucian Truscott “possessed what one staff officer called a ‘predatory’ face, with protruding gray eyes and gapped incisors set in a jut jaw built to scowl.” Field Marshal Bernard Montgomerychafed under Gen. Britain before D-Day “was steeped in heavy smells, of old smoke and cheap coal and fatigue.” Gen. ![]() armed forces did in the entire war.” But “for magnitude and unalloyed violence, the battle in the Ardennes” - the Battle of the Bulge - “was unlike any seen before in American history.” The 600,000 Americans who fought in the Ardennes were four times the number of Union and Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg.Ītkinson’s story is propelled by vivid descriptions and delicious details. ![]() Western Europe was, Atkinson stresses, just one cauldron: “The Red Army suffered more combat deaths at Stalingrad alone than the U.S. Spend the shank end of summer with Atkinson’s tribute to all who served and suffered. infantryman wrote, “No war is really over until the last veteran is dead,” the war has not ended: About 400 World War II veterans, almost half a battalion, are dying each day. ![]() Atkinson’s “ The Guns at Last Light,” the completion of his trilogy on the liberation of Western Europe, is history written at the level of literature. ![]()
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