Rick Atkinson is an award-winning historian and journalist. He worked at the Washington Post for 25 years as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent, including three years as the newspaper’s Berlin bureau chief. He has written five works of military history, including the first two volumes of the Liberation Trilogy, a narrative account of the American role in the liberation of Europe during the Second World War. Volume I of the trilogy, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, earned him one of his three Pulitzer Prizes. Volume II, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, published in 2007, was described by Sir Michael Howard in the Times Literary Supplement as “one of the truly outstanding records of the Second World War.”
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The Liberation Trilogy, Volume III
At the Academy, Atkinson conducted research for the trilogy’s final volume, in which he examines the last year of the war from the invasion of Normandy to Germany’s surrender in 1945.
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