[World War II Liberation Trilogy 01] • The Liberation Trilogy Box Set by Atkinson, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Notice Contents AN ARMY AT DAWN

Praise Dedication Epigraph LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE

1. PASSAGE

A Meeting with the Dutchman Gathering the Ships Rendezvous at Cherchel On the Knees of the Gods A Man Must Believe in His Luck

2. LANDING

“In the Night, All Cats Are Grey” In Barbary VILLAIN To the Last Man “Glory Enough for Us All”

3. BEACHHEAD

A Sword in Algiers A Blue Flag over Oran “An Orgy of Disorder” Battle for the Kasbah “It’s All Over for Now”

PART TWO

4. PUSHING EAST

“We Live in Tragic Hours” A Cold Country with a Hot Sun Medjez-el-Bab Fat Geese on a Pond

5. PRIMUS IN CARTHAGO

“Go for the Swine with a Blithe Heart” “The Dead Salute the Gods” “Jerry Is Counterattacking!”

6. A COUNTRY OF DEFILES

Longstop “They Shot the Little Son of a Bitch” “This Is the Hand of God”

PART THREE

7. CASABLANCA

The Ice-Cream Front Speedy Valley “The Touch of the World” The Sinners’ Concourse

8. A BITS AND PIECES WAR

“Goats Set Out to Lure a Tiger” “This Can’t Happen to Us” “The Mortal Dangers That Beset Us” “A Good Night for a Mass Murder”

9. KASSERINE

A Hostile Debouchment None Returned “Sometimes That Is Not Good Enough” “This Place Is Too Hot” “Order, Counter-order, and Disorder” “Lay Roughly on the Tanks”

PART FOUR

10. THE WORLD WE KNEW IS A LONG TIME DEAD

Vigil in Red Oak “We Know There’ll Be Troubles of Every Sort” “One Needs Luck in War” “The Devil Is Come Down”

11. OVER THE TOP

“Give Them Some Steel!” “Search Your Soul” Night Closes Down “I Had a Plan…Now I Have None”

12. THE INNER KEEP

Hell’s Corner Hammering Home the Cork “Count Your Children Now, Adolf!” Tunisgrad

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THE DAY OF BATTLE

Dedication Epigraph LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE

1. ACROSS THE MIDDLE SEA

Forcing the World Back to Reason Calypso’s Island “The Horses of the Sun” Death or Glory

2. THE BURNING SHORE

Land of the Cyclops The Loss of Irrecoverable Hours “Tonight Wear White Pajamas” “The Dark World Is Not Far from Us”

3. AN ISLAND REDOUBT

“Into Battle with Stout Hearts” “How I Love Wars” Snaring the Head Devil Fevers of an Unknown Origin A Great Grief “In a Place Like This”

PART TWO

4. SALERNO

“Risks Must Be Calculated” Plots, Counterplots, and Cross-plots The Stillest Shoes the World Could Boast The Moan of Lost Souls A Portal Won

5. CORPSE OF THE SIREN

“I Give You Naples” “Watch Where You Step and Have No Curiosity at All” The Mountainous Hinterland “The Entire World Was Burning”

6. WINTER

The Archangel Michael, Here and Everywhere “A Tank Too Big for the Village Square” A Gangster’s Battle Too Many Gone West

PART THREE

7. A RIVER AND A ROCK

Colonel Warden Makes a Plan “Nothing Was Right Except the Courage” The Show Must Go On

8. PERDITION

“Something’s Happening” Through the Looking Glass Jerryland

9. THE MURDER SPACE

This World and the Next World at Strife The Bitchhead “Man Is Distinguished from the Beasts”

PART FOUR

10. FOUR HORSEMEN

A Fairyland of Silver and Gold The Weight of Metal Dragonflies in the Sun

11. A KETTLE OF GRIEF

Dead Country “Put the Fear of God into Them” “You Are All Brave. You Are All Gentlemen” “On the Eve of Great Things”

12. THE GREAT PRIZE

Shaking Stars from the Heavens A Fifth Army Show The Cuckoo’s Song Expulsion of the Barbarians

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THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT

Dedication Epigraph LIST OF MAPS MAP LEGEND ALLIED CHAIN OF COMMAND PROLOGUE PART ONE

1. INVASION

The Far Shore First Tide Hell’s Beach A Conqueror’s Paradise

2. LODGEMENT

“This Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish” A Gunman’s World Terror Is Broken by Terror How Easy It Is to Make a Ghost

3. LIBERATION

A Monstrous Blood-Mill The Bright Day Grew Dark Ministers of Thy Chastisement The Loveliest Story of Our Time

PART TWO

4. PURSUIT

“The Huntsman Is Hungry” The Avenue of Stenches “Harden the Heart and Let Fly”

5. AGAINST THE WEST WALL

“Five Barley Loaves and Three Small Fishes” Every Village a Fortress A Market and a Garden The Arrow That Flieth by Day

6. THE IMPLICATED WOODS

Charlemagne’s Tomb “Do Not Let Us Pretend We Are All Right” The Worst Place of Any

Part Three

7. THE FLUTTER OF WINGS

A Town Too Small for the Tragedy Faith in a Friendly Universe To the Land of Doom “Providence Decrees and We Must Obey”

8. A WINTER SHADOW

“We Are All So Human That It Is Pitiful” Staking Everything on One Card The Light Line “Go Easy, Boys. There’s Danger Ahead”

9. THE BULGE

A Rendezvous in Some Flaming Town “Why Are You Not Packing?” War in the Raw Glory Has Its Price The Agony Grapevine

PART FOUR

10. ARGONAUTS

Citizens of the World A Fateful Conference “Only Our Eyes Are Alive”

11. CROSSINGS

The Inner Door to Germany Two If by Sea “The Enemy Has Reason to Fear Him” Lovers’ Quarrels Are a Part of Love

12. VICTORY

Mark of the Beast Dragon Country “God, Where Are You?” A Great Silence

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