![]() ![]() Since the focus of the narrative in the series is the American Army, the story begins with the Operation Torch landings in North Africa. Despite a couple of quibbles, we'd concur. Greatest epic of the 20th century, in the way that they did justice to the Civil War with their trilogies.Ĭaton and Foote are heady company, but obviously the critics think he's off to a good start. I wanted to try to do justice to the sweep of this tremendous story, the So this is volume 1 of the liberation trilogy.ĪTKINSON: I got the idea partly from Shelby Foote, partly from Bruce Caton. There are three panels that inform one another. The liberation in Europe is really a tryptich. RICK ATKINSON: Well, the liberation trilogy is my effort to tell the narrative story of the American army's role in the liberation in Europe in World ![]() Goal he's set himself, as here, on Booknotes:īRIAN LAMB: Rick Atkinson.what is the "liberation trilogy"? Rick Atkinson, who's already won the Pulitzer Prize in History for this first volume of his WWII trilogy, has made no secret of the ambitious ![]()
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