War and the Humanities
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Lecture Series on War and the Humanities
(A joint initiative of the Humanities Center and the Center for International Relations and Politics)
Rick Atkinson
Bet-Selling and Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author, Military Historian
Rick Atkinson is a best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Washington Post journalist. He is the author of the Liberation Trilogy, a narrative history of the liberation of Europe in World War II. The third volume of the series, The Guns at Last Light, quickly became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller. It was also named one of Washington Post’s “Top 10 Books of 2013.” The first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, received the Pulitzer Prize and was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “the best World War II battle narrative since Cornelius Ryan’s classics, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far.”
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Supported in part by the Bradford and Diane Smith Humanities Scholars Fund.