What book are you recommending to friends this summer? Jul 13, 2009
Forgotten Man wrote on Jul 12, 2009 12:50 PM:" For all history/WW2 afficionados I recommend "An Army At Dawn" and "Day of Battle" by Rick Atkinson. These are VERY well-written histories of the N. African and Italian campaigns by the U.S. Army against the Axis. Contains a great deal of information RE the 34th Infantry Division which were mostly Western Iowa/ Siouxland boys. ". 14 comment(s). (Sioux City Journal)
The tragic story of Monte Cassino Mar 22, 2009
And so the bombing proceeded -- "swarms of bright pellets tumbled toward the abbey," Rick Atkinson wrote in "The Day of Battle," his masterly account of the war in Italy, "as if heaven itself were throwing silver stones.". There were, as it turned out, no Germans in the abbey, though the destruction of the monastery by 250 bombers dropping 600 tons of high explosives and incendiaries provided the Germans with a crude high position, militarily and morally, that they had not occupied before the... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The Kasserine Pass: Out of Defeat, Victory Feb 13, 2009
Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, author of "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa," described the carnage: "They were driven back out of Sidi Bou Zid with many soldiers killed and captured. The Germans had success beyond their wildest imagination at this point.". But the worst was yet to come for some 30,000 Americans at the Kasserine Pass. (Fox News)
