A review by musicsaves
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson

4.0

FIRST LINE REVIEW: "A killing frost struck England in the middle of May 1944, stunting the plum trees and the berry crops." And the killing continues through the next 640 pages of Atkinson's conclusion to his Liberation Trilogy. He's taken me through the African campaign in "An Army at Dawn" and the Italian campaign in "The Day of Battle." Now we finally reach Western Europe for the most horrific of all confrontations. Atkinson write histories with the subtle voice of a poet when not being bogged down in the brutal amount of statistics that a good researcher often brings to this game. I found the stats more oppressive this time around, so it was a bit more a slog to finish this one. But perhaps that's the point. It certainly wasn't easy for the Allied forces to finish their mission, either.