The Liberation Trilogy
I just finished Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson. It's the third and final volume in his excellent Liberation Trilogy about the United States' involvement in the ETO during WWII and it focusses on the campaign in northwest Europe from D-Day to VE Day. The first book, Army at Dawn chronicles the campaign in North Africa from Operation Torch onward. The second book, called The Day of Battle, is about the campaigns in Sicily and Italy through 1944. All three books are really, really good. Although they focus on American diplomatic and military involvement in each region, they also cover other Allied personalities and operations as well, especially for joint and/or codependent ops. I can't recommend this trilogy highly enough.
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