Rick Atkinson
Autore di Un esercito all'alba: la guerra in Nordafrica, 1942-1943
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Rick Atkinson speaks on the HIstory and Biography Stage at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Serie
Opere di Rick Atkinson
The Thin Gray Line 1 copia
The History of Mexico 1 copia
Opere correlate
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Collaboratore — 560 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2007 (2007) — Author "The Archangel Michael, Here and Everywhere" — 11 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2013 (2013) — Author "The Worst Place of Any — 3 copie
A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, and Other World War II Writings — A cura di — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Atkinson, Lawrence Rush, IV
- Data di nascita
- 1952-11-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA (born in Germany to American parents)
- Luogo di nascita
- Munich, Germany
- Luogo di residenza
- Washington, DC, USA
Berlin, Germany - Istruzione
- East Carolina University (1974)
University of Chicago (1976) - Attività lavorative
- reporter
editor
writer - Organizzazioni
- Kansas City Times
The Washington Post
American Academy in Berlin
Barsanti Military History Center - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellow
Pritzker Literature Award (2010)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 9,110
- Popolarità
- #2,640
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 220
- ISBN
- 170
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 21
Mistakes are shown and explained; the suffering of the soldiers and of the civilians are told in full, as are decisions (good or bad ones)