Aug 21, 2016EvanSchoenfeld rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
To some extent this is a vast assemblage of individual, personal experience. Atkinson is very skilled in giving it an overall shape. The reader feels he has learned why the North African conflict played out the way it did, and even gained a jittery illusion of first hand experience. In a way I wish that nuts and bolts themes (like who had air superiority and why, or the state of the adversaries' logistics) were more smoothly integrated. But it would be wrong to complain. A swell book.
Comment
An Army at Dawn