Rick Atkinson
Auteur van Een leger bij dageraad de bevrijding van Europa 1942-1943
Over de Auteur
Rick Atkinson holds a master of arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and military historian Atkinson is the author of the highly-acclaimed Liberation Trilogy, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. Atkinson toon meer received the Pulitzer Prize for the first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. The second volume, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, drew praise as well. Atkinson also received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to the Washington Post for a series of investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department. He is winner of the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, and the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College. In 2014 his title The Guns at Last Light made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Rick Atkinson speaks on the HIstory and Biography Stage at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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Werken van Rick Atkinson
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (2019) 994 exemplaren
THE LONG GRAY LINE Signed Easton Press 1 exemplaar
The Thin Gray Line 1 exemplaar
Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point. 1 exemplaar
The History of Mexico 1 exemplaar
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- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Atkinson, Lawrence Rush, IV
- Geboortedatum
- 1952-11-16
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA (born in Germany to American parents)
- Geboorteplaats
- Munich, Germany
- Woonplaatsen
- Washington, DC, USA
Berlin, Germany - Opleiding
- East Carolina University (1974)
University of Chicago (1976) - Beroepen
- reporter
editor
writer - Organisaties
- Kansas City Times
The Washington Post
American Academy in Berlin
Barsanti Military History Center - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellow
Pritzker Literature Award (2010)
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- #2,625
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Atkinson's weaves together a narrative of numerous classmates, their spouses, and other noteworthy individuals, including General William Westmoreland, Douglas MacArthur, and Revrend Jim Ford who served as the Chaplain of West Point for the class of 66 and many years afterwards. The story parallels what the blurb of the book describes as a fault line in U.S. history for the class of servicemen, who served in the Vietnam War and the Post War Military World. Those who retired from the military and others who served through the late 1980s.
Among those highlighted by Atkinson are Tom Carhart, George Crocker, and Jack Wheeler. I've had this in my bookshelf for years and just read it and was overwhelmed by the story of these young men who served during a turbulent time and was during which the military took a downturn in the mind of those who served and the American public.
A fascinating book.… (meer)