- World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Campaigns, Historical Fiction
Jeff Shaara, America's premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler's European fortress.
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Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
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- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Jeff Shaara
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group, RH Audio
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345461421
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