Rick Atkinson, a Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning journalist, talked about his life and career. Atkinson is the author of six non-fiction books, including: The Long Gray Line Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat and the Liberation Trilogy, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa and The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy and concluding in 2013 with The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945. This previously untold story of the US war with Iraq in the early 1990s, Atkinson follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts.
Atkinson speaking February 6, 2003, about the role of a war correspondent. A definitive account of the Gulf War told by Pulitzer Prizewinning correspondent Rick Atkinson. He responded to electronic communications and viewer telephone calls, including a special line for World War II veterans.
The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. Topics included the liberation of Europe in World War II, the Iraq War, and the Persian Gulf War a decade earlier. Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 19421943. T12:00:21-04:00 Rick Atkinson, a Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning journalist, talked about his life and career.
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