Rick Atkinson (Author of An Army at Dawn)

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Rick Atkinson

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in Munich, Germany

November 16, 1952

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History, Military History, Nonfiction

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Rick Atkinson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven works of history, including The Long Gray Line, the Liberation Trilogy (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light), and The British Are Coming, the first volume of the Revolution Trilogy. His work as a historian and journalist has won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes.

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Average rating: 4.34 · 62,968 ratings · 4,659 reviews · 54 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 21,999 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 15,424 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3) 4.47 avg rating — 10,499 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson, John Sterling (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 7,222 ratings — published 2019 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 4.30 avg rating — 3,242 ratings — published 1989 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq 3.94 avg rating — 1,867 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War 4.12 avg rating — 982 ratings — published 1993 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, 2) 4.68 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 [The Young Readers Adaptation] 3.91 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set 4.76 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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World War II Liberation Trilogy (3 books)
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Rick Atkinson

4.35 avg rating — 48,202 ratings

The Revolution Trilogy (2 books)
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4.44 avg rating — 7,711 ratings

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“Learning to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong”
― Rick Atkinson, The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

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“There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn鈥檛 seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.”
― Rick Atkinson, Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

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“Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

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