The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light
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The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light
where 17,000 people had been killed in a single day of Luftwaffe bombing.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
Smoke spiraled in thick braids
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
Not a single officer on duty in 1941 had commanded a unit as large as a division in World War I; the average age of majors was forty-eight.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
The lay of the land also remains—the vulnerable low ground, the superior high ground: incessant reminders of how, in battle, topography is fate.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
a boomerang crest two thousand feet high, running from southwest to northeast and unmarked on Belgian military maps. American commanders named this high ground after a nearby village: Elsenborn Ridge.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
Dietrich needed an eight- to twelve-mile cushion on his right flank to keep German assault columns unmolested by American artillery
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
Eisenhower in a subsequent cable to Marshall would confess that “all of us, without exception, were astonished” at the strength of HERBSTNEBEL, and nearly a week would elapse until SHAEF intelligence confirmed German ambitions of cleaving the Allied armies in half.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
flimsy armored cars and a few tank destroyers in eight sugar-bowl strongpoints
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
“There is a soul to an army as well as to the individual man, and no general can accomplish the full work of his army unless he commands the soul of his men, as well as their bodies and legs.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
September 1, 1939, was the first day of a war that would last for 2,174 days, and it brought the first dead in a war that would claim an average of 27,600 lives every day, or 1,150 an hour, or 19 a minute, or one death every 3 seconds.
from The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson