Rick Atkinson
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Rick Atkinson (born 1952, in Munich) is an American journalist and author. He was a writer and editor at The Washington Post for twenty years. His writing generally focuses on the United States Army. Among his bestselling books is An Army at Dawn, the first volume of the "The Liberation Trilogy", which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History. During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq he was an embedded journalist with the 101st Airborne Division, an experience he recounted in his book, In the Company of Soldiers. Atkinson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for national reporting for a series on the West Point Class of 1966 while working at the Kansas City Times. Additionally, he served as the assistant managing editor of the Washington Post Investigative Section and edited a police investigative series, which won the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service.
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- (2004) In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-7561-5.
- (2002) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6288-2.
- (1993) Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-60290-4.
- (1989) The Long Gray Line. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-48008-6.
