[World War II Liberation Trilogy 03] • The Guns at Last Light · The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Atkinson, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Contents 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

Epilogue Notes Selected Sources Acknowledgments Index Photographs Also by Rick Atkinson About the Author Copyright