Friday, November 16, 2007

Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson is working on a trilogy of WW2 books. The Time reviewer referred to "genuinely new materials and perspectives." That's referring to The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, by Rick Atkinson.


Here is an Atkinson bibliography: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Atkinson
  • (1989) The Long Gray Line. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-48008-6.
  • (1993) Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-60290-4.
  • (2002) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6288-2.
  • (2004) In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-7561-5.
  • (2007) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6289-0.
The Army at Dawn won a Pulitzer Prize. http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2003/history/works/

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