The Washington Post – Gerard DeGroot
In this, the third volume of his Liberation Trilogy, [Atkinson] reconstructs the period from D-Day to V-E Day by weaving a multitude of tiny details into a tapestry of achingly sublime prose. When handsome words are used to convey horror, their effect is like a bayonet in the gut. That is what Siegfried Sassoon proved with his poems from the First World War. The Guns at Last Light often reads like the best of Sassoon…[Atkinson] seems to weigh carefully every small piece of evidence before inserting it precisely where it belongs. The Guns at Last Light is a very long book, but in contrast to so many popular histories I've read of late, this one seemed too short.