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Author
Series
Revolution trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
How did the United States become the country it is today? What led to its creation? Adapted from Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson’s deeply researched and stunningly vivid The British Are Coming, the young readers edition explores these questions and so much more as it delves into the American Revolution. A collection of key battles from the beginning of the war, including Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Bunker Hill, sets the scene,...
Author
Series
The liberation trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents, for young readers, an adaptation of the best-selling "The guns at last light" to commemorate the historical significance of D-Day, tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.