Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy—An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History), The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light—as well as The Long Gray Line and other books. His many additional awards include a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, a George Polk Award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Day Of Battle by Rick Atkinson
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
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The British Are Coming
The Revolution Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the Excellence in American...
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Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]
Rick Atkinson
Square Fish
Square Fish
December 16, 1944. In the frozen forests of the Ardennes, a surprise attack by the German army on American Allied forces launched the long, hard slog that was the Battle of the Bulge. Sir Winston...
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The Guns at Last Light
The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
Picador
Picador
It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation...
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The Liberation Trilogy Box Set
The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
Henry Holt and Co.
The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is now together in one ebook bundle
From the War in North...
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The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set
The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
Henry Holt and Co.
The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is now together in one boxed set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of...
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The Long Gray Line
Rick Atkinson
Picador
Picador
"A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe
A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the...
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The Day of Battle
The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Majestic... Atkinson's achievement is to marry prodigious research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay the whole with writing...
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An Army at Dawn
The Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war."—The...
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In the Company of Soldiers
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
"A beautifully written and memorable account of combat from the top down and bottom up as the 101st Airborne commanders and front-line grunts battle their way to Baghdad.... A must-read."—Tom...
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