Rick Atkinson - 2022 American Spirit Award Recipient
10Rick Atkinson is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author who has inspired generations to understand the history and values of the American experience through his work as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and military historian. In his work, Atkinson has recounted some of the defining moments in our nation’s military history that have shaped and preserved our democracy. He is best known for his Liberation Trilogy—An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last—which depict the battles in North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe that contributed to the Allied victory in World War II. These seminal narrative histories of the liberation of Europe continue to influence our collective understanding of this monumental conflict, and his approach to portraying the soldiers who fought and the generals who led ensures future generations appreciate the human side of war.
Atkinson has served as an advisor to The National WWII Museum since the inception of its Presidential Counselors in 2006 and is a frequent presenter at the Museum’s International Conference on World War II. His devotion to scholarship as a premier military historian of his time inspires generations of Americans through the stories of WWII battles and the individuals who won the war that changed the world.
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