Rick Atkinson
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On September 24, 2008, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson spoke in Pugh Hall about his latest book, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, which is the second title in his trilogy on the liberation of Europe.
Rick Atkinson is also the author of: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943; The Long Gray Line; Crusade; and In the Company of Soldiers. He is currently researching and writing his third book in the trilogy, which focuses on the Normandy Invasion to the end of the war. At the author's request, SPOHP has provided his research team with more than a dozen oral histories from its World War II Collection of veterans who participated in the D-Day landings.
