"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...

The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months...

Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.

Rick Atkinson, covering the 101st Airborne Division for "The Washington Post," presents a revealing portrait of the soldiers who fight the expeditionary conflicts that have become the hallmark of our age.

June 6, 1944. They came by sea and by sky, to reclaim liberty from the occupying Germans. As the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, they turned the tide of World War II. Capturing the events and the spirit of that day; the day that led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.