Guns at Last Light

Rick Atkinson closes his Liberation Trilogy on the Allied war in Europe, after two earlier volumes followed the American-led coalition through North Africa and Italy. This last part covers the campaign in Western Europe that began with D-Day: the battle for Normandy, Paris set free, the Market Garden disaster, the Battle of the Bulge and the final push into the Third Reich until Germany surrendered. Drawing on a large body of new material, Atkinson tells the story through participants at every rank, from presidents and generals to exhausted lieutenants and frightened teenage riflemen.

Morgan Housel named it the best World War II book he has read, praising how it explains the war through human stories instead of dry statistics.