An Army at Dawn, My current read

An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson. A fluid, intelligent, hands-on account of the first major U.S. involvement in the war in Europe in World War II. Filled with vivid anecdotes, insightful quotes, clear battle maps, concise narrative and dead-on analysis, An Army at Dawn makes the case that Africa was a training ground for the U.S. Army, without which Victory in Europe would have been far from certain. Mr. Atkinson has a way with words that brings history to life and makes it relevant in the modern age.