Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy began with an account of the 1942 Allied fighting in North Africa in An Army at Dawn, followed with the struggle in Italy and Sicily in 1943 in The Day of Battle, and concludes here, with the American-led victory in Western Europe. Covering 1944-45, this final volume expertly takes readers through D-Day, the fight at Normandy, the liberation of Paris, and the downfall of the Third Reich.This event was filmed at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. on May 14, 2013.