A Rattling Good Read -- Remove if old news

[Bob Potter]

Gentlemen,

Last evening I finished reading Rick Atkinson's "Day of Battle," the second in his "Liberation Trilogy." Those of you who have followed my rambling in these fora will recall that my father was an Italian campaign veteran and I have spent many a happy hour picking the brains of the membership here for more sources.

If you put only one book on your shelves about the Italian campaign, let it be this one. Atkinson has researched prodigiously, synthesizes primary and secondary material thoroughly, ans writes brilliantly. OK, his focus is Americans, the Fifth Army, and Marcus Aurelius Clarkus, but the Allied contribution is treated in some detail. He reports the conclusions of others but allows the reader to draw his own.

If any of you have read it, I'd admire to read your opinion.

Otherwise put it on your Christmas list, below the new CMP tyres.

Bob