An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 (Book One of The Liberation Trilogy) - Book review
www.liberationtrilogy.com For as long as I can remember, I've been interested in almost every aspect of the Second World War, partly because movies such as The Sands of Iwo Jima made the war seem like an exciting adventure with "good guys" and "bad guys,' but more importantly because as I grew older I realized that even though wars aren't something to be longed for, the conflict between the Allies and the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was one of the few justified clashes of arms of modern history, even if some of its causes were the result of bad decisions made by the victors of World War I. As I've grown older, I've noticed that non-fiction books about World War II have evolved from the almost propaganda-like the Anglo-American Allies fought a brilliant campaign of liberation from 1942 to 1945 with an unprecedented spirit of cooperation and strategic savvy to the more realistic view of while the western alliance was one of the most succes