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NY TIMES BESTSELLER"Regal, Atkinson’s accomplishment would be to wed enormous study with a beautifully structured narrative and then to overlay the entire with publishing as effective and stylish as any excellent narrative of war.” —The Wall Street JournalIn An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson supplied an authoritative record of the Allied success in North Africa during World-War II. Today, while In The Day of Struggle, he uses the conditioning American and British armies because they invade Sicily in July 1943 and subsequently, mile by bloody mile, struggle their way north toward Rome.The choice to invade the alleged soft underbelly of Europe was questionable, but when under way, the dedication to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered. The fights at Salerno, Anzio, the Rapido River, and Monte Cassino were especially life-threatening, however whilst the weeks passed, the Allied forces continued to operate a vehicle the Germans up the Italian peninsula. And with the freedom of Rome in June 1944, supreme triumph finally started initially to appear inevitable.Drawing on the variety of primary source material, created with good style and drama, Your Day of Fight is just a masterly account of 1 of history’s many persuasive military strategies.