The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson

[JWW]

The second part of his Liberation Trilogy that focuses on US forces in Europe in WWII. I'm reading it right now, and it covers the Sicily and Italy campaigns of 1943 and 1944. Very good book. I'm at the end of the Salerno landings and battles right now in the book.

I recommend the first part, too, An Army at Dawn, the story of the North African campaign from the entry of the US into WWII. The last part, The Guns at Last Light, obviously picks up where The Day of Battle leaves off. And of course I haven't read that one yet.

Anyway, I wanted to recommend this book because it is relatively new, published in 2007, very good, an easy read, and primarily covers the same ground as Piercing Fortress Europe. There is a lot of discussion of the logistics of an amphibious invasion, among other things, without getting bogged down into tedious detail.

It is for that reason that I broke down and bought the game today. I was on the fence because I had recently bought a couple of other new Matrix offerings, but I have this book, and I like Frank Hunter games, and I am interested in the treatment of logistics in the game, so I bought it.