Kyle Harrison
to-read
An Army at Dawn
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
- Author
- Rick Atkinson
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 704
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: The first volume of the Liberation Trilogy: the American army arriving in North Africa badly led and badly trained, and being rebuilt in contact with the enemy.
Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787
Named twice in that thread.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- World War II · History — where this sits in the corpus.