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 Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy: the American army arriving in North Africa badly led and badly trained, and being rebuilt in contact with the enemy.
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named twice in answer to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in a thread on X, June 2025.
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.