The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set by Rick Atkinson

The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set Reviews

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  Jennifer Swann

  It was a very tedious read, but it has great "snippets" of diaries and letters that really helped described how life was during the war. I learned a lot reading this series.
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  Timothy

  I didn't buy the boxed set, I had purchased all three individually. I began reading Volume 1 in April 2020 and finished Volume 3 at the end of July 2020. This was my COVID-19 project.
  
  Atkinson paints a picture of war in all its horror and valor. The death toll was unimaginable. "Heroic" officers making decisions that cost way too many lives. Ill-prepared soldiers being thrown into combat. The personality struggles and the politics between the the big three leaders and their generals made for very interesting reading.
  
  Reading these books at this time in our history is eye-opening. The amount of resources that were expended in both material and people to conquer this thing called "Nazism" makes me wonder what happened to our country and our veterans who are silent when people say there are "good folks who are Neo-Nazis." How can we allow this "ism" to rise anew in our world? Where are the voices of the men and women who paid so dearly to destroy this horrible philosophy?
  
  Kudos to this author. I look forward to reading his book on the Revolutionary War.
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  Ryan Rench

  Never have I seen and felt the terror of war until I read these three books. Like driving by a car wreck, I could not look away.
  
  But my interest was deeper than curiosity. I felt like I needed to know what the men endured when they fought in World War II.
  
  The grim truth of war is that boys ship overseas to be trained to do vile things. They see things that change them for life, and they’re rarely shown the bigger picture of the greater good. Books like this can help us see the broad view as we peer through history, but the men in the trenches had to endure the daily struggles of the heat of North Africa (Book One: An Army At Dawn), the freezing seasons of Italy (Book Two: The Day of Battle), and the wet seasons of Europe (Book Three: The Guns At Last Light) on their way to Berlin.
  
  These three books are masterfully arranged, well-researched, and brutally honest. It is disturbing, at times, to think of the “Greatest Generation” in terms of killing machines, but what they overcame in such a short time was truly incredible.
  
  Note: this book is non-Christian and includes profanity.
  
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  Robert Owen Lisk

  Having read a lot of Pacific theater World War 2, this one focuses on the Army operations.
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  Bob

  I've been reading WWII books since the 8th grade, yet this set of books sticks out. Really interesting and fact filled.
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  Robert Fitzhugh

  Outstanding piece of work!
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  Shafayet

  Every page I flipped felt like footsteps as I explored a part of the war torn European continent. The sheer amount of research done by the author to write these books is simply mind boggling. I just didn't read a trilogy, I had an experience!
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  Kathleen

  The Liberation Trilogy, as a whole, reveals the enormity of World War II, in all its horrific detail and with a brilliant, character driven narrative. From the campaign in North Africa to the Allied victory in Europe, Atkinson brings the horrific lessons of war home in a gifted storytelling style and does not wince from the brutal realities of the cost of World War II, especially in the price paid in human treasure.
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  Kent Hayden

  This three-part series is a long history. I finished the North Africa campaign and now onto Sicily and the Italian Occupation.
  
  About the first volume: a well-written book about a pivotal point in WWII with the introduction of American involvement. This beginning conflict driving the Axis out of North Africa was primarily a learning point for the Allies working together against a determined and able enemy. Lot of unforgettable vignettes of soldiers in war and tragedy.
  
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  Lynn Johnston

  Enjoyable, but rather dry. Took me quite a while to work through...
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  Raymond

  Very informative information about WWII, very detailed.
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  S. Michael Pollak

  Well researched and an in-depth analysis of the war in western Europe and Africa during WWII. I learned much of recent history through this trilogy.