About the Book: The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Majestic. . . Atkinsons achievement is to marry
prodigious research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay the
whole with writing as powerful and elegant as any great narrative of war. ""The
Wall Street Journal"""""In"An Army at Dawn" winner of the Pulitzer Prize Rick
Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa
during World War II. Now, in"The Day of Battle, " he follows the strengthening
American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by
bloody mile, fight