Rick Atkinson
November 16, 1952
Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV is an American author who has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism. After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing military history. His six books include narrative accounts of four different American wars. His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. - Wikipedia
Books
- Where Valor Rests
- The British Are Coming
- On war
- The long gray line
- The Guns at Last Light
- Fate of the Day
- Battle of the Bulge [the Young Readers Adaptation]
- Battle of the Bulge
- The Day of Battle
- In the Company of Soldiers
- Liberation Trilogy Series, 3 Books Set, an Army at Dawn the War in North Africa, the Day of Battle the War in Sicily and Italy, the Guns at Last Light the War in Western Europe
- Of dogs and men
- The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set
- Battle of the Bulge
- All the Trumpets Sounded
- D-Day
- An Army at Dawn
- Crusade
Author data: Open Library