Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. His many other awards include two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, the George Polk award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. He is a former staff writer and senior editor at the Washington Post.
[Atkinson's] storytelling verve and infectious, boyish enthusiasm swept me up and carried me along from D-Day in June 1944, all the way through Normandy, Paris, Arnhem and the Bulge to the final apocalyptic reckoning... gripping and harrowing... for sheer relentless readability, Atkinson is hard to beat - TelegraphFor history buffs or anyone interested in how men react in extremis... top storytelling - Mail on SundayAs fast and furious as the conflict it describes - The Times
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