Gunfire at Dawn: from D-day to the Fall of the Third Reich, 1944-1945
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This is an unparalleled epic of the 20th century. This book reproduces the large-scale battles and dramatic stories on the Western European battlefields from 1944 to 1945, and restores the thrilling process of the Allies occupying Europe at a huge cost and destroying the Third Reich. The Allied forces kicked off the decisive battle in Western Europe with the Normandy landing, and then captured the ill-fated French cities of Cherbourg and Paris, pointing their guns at the Ruhr area, Germany's industrial lifeline. Since then, the war on the Western Front has spread to Germany itself. In the subsequent Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, and the thrilling Battle of the Bulge, the Allies suffered heavy losses, but they had cleared the way and drove straight into the heart of Nazi Germany, Berlin, with overwhelming force. At the same time, a bloody revenge action is about to begin. As a successful journalist and an outstanding historian, Atkinson uses superb writing skills and beautiful words to vividly describe the bold and risky military operations, and presents this history from the perspectives of different participants: arrogant senior officers and politicians, trembling soldiers in the trenches, Berlin civilians whimpering during plunder, burning and rape... Atkinson writes about those heavy sufferings and honors stained with blood and stains in a compassionate way.
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