Editing Rick Atkinson (section)

==Works==
Atkinson's first book, written while on leave from the ''Post'', was ''The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966''. A 1989 review in ''Time'' magazine called it "brilliant history",<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=TIME <!-- |author-link=Stefan Kanfer --> |first=Stefan |last=Kanfer |date=October 30, 1989 |title=Books: Point Blank |access-date=November 30, 2013|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958899,00.html}} {{subscription required}}</ref> and ''[[Business Week]]'' reviewer Dave Griffiths called it "the best book out of Vietnam to date".<ref name="Contemporary2" /> Author [[James Salter]], reviewing the book for ''[[The Washington Post Book World]]'', wrote, "Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist's brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one."<ref name="salter1">{{cite news |last1=Salter |first1=James |title=Lonely Are the Brave |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/10/08/lonely-are-the-brave/b1036e74-d236-494c-8f41-e9490c85b01f/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=23 November 2020 |date=8 October 1989}}</ref>

In 1993, Atkinson wrote ''Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War''. In a review, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' wrote, "No one could have been better prepared to write a book on Desert Storm, and Atkinson's ''Crusade'' does full justice to the opportunity."<ref name=":0" />

Publication of [[The Liberation Trilogy]] began in 2002 with ''[[An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943|An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943]]'', acclaimed by ''The Wall Street Journal'' as "the best World War II battle narrative since [[Cornelius Ryan]]'s classics, [[The Longest Day (book)|''The Longest Day'']] and [[A Bridge Too Far (book)|''A Bridge Too Far'']]." While with the [[101st Airborne Division]] south of [[Baghdad]] in April 2003, Atkinson learned that the book had been awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for history. The trilogy's second volume, ''The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944'', published in 2007, drew praise from ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "a triumph of narrative history, elegantly written...and rooted in the sights and sounds of battle." Volume three, ''The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945'', was published by Henry Holt and Co. in May 2013, and was ranked #1 on the ''New York Times'' Hardcover Nonfiction<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 2, 2013 |title=Best Sellers – The New York Times |access-date=November 30, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2013-06-02/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html}}</ref> and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction<ref name=Jennifer_2013>{{cite web|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=November 30, 2013|date=May 23, 2013 |work=Arts Beat: The Culture at Large (blog)|title=Rick Atkinson to Write Trilogy about the American Revolution <!-- |author-link=Jennifer Schuessler -->|first=Jennifer |last=Schuessler|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/rick-atkinson-to-write-trilogy-about-the-american-revolution/?_r=0}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 2, 2013 |title=Best Sellers – The New York Times |access-date=November 30, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2013-06-02/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/list.html}}</ref> bestseller lists. A review in ''The New York Times'' called the book "a tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity...Atkinson is a master of what might be called 'pointillism history,' assembling the small dots of pure color into a vivid, tumbling narrative... The Liberation Trilogy is a monumental achievement."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/books/review/the-guns-at-last-light-by-rick-atkinson.html |title=The Price of Victory |work=The New York Times |date=May 23, 2013 |access-date=March 20, 2019|last1=MacIntyre |first1=Ben }}</ref>

As a result of his time with Gen. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne, Atkinson also wrote ''[[In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat]]'', which ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' called "intimate, vivid, and well-informed", and which ''[[Newsweek]]'' cited as one of the ten best books of 2004. Atkinson was the lead essayist in ''[[Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery]]'', published by the [[National Geographic Society]] in 2007. He is the editor and introductory essayist for an anthology of work by the journalist and military historian [[Cornelius Ryan]] published by Library of America in May 2019.

In May 2019, the first book in the Revolution Trilogy, ''The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777''<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Revolution Trilogy|url=https://therevolutiontrilogy.com}}</ref>'','' was published by Henry Holt and edited, as all of Atkinson's books have been, by John Sterling. The ''New York Times'' selected ''The British Are Coming'' for its 100 Notable Books of 2019.<ref name="notable2019">{{cite web |title=100 Notable Books of 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/books/notable-books.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=23 November 2020 |date=25 November 2019}}</ref> It won the 2020 [[George Washington Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The George Washington Book Prize 2020 |url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/george-washington-prize/2020 |website=George Washington's Mount Vernon |date=25 November 2019}}</ref> In 2025, he published ''The Fate of the Day'', the second book in the Revolution Trilogy.

In 2019, Atkinson was named a Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow by the [[Georgia Historical Society]], an honor that recognizes national leaders in the field of history as both writers and educators whose research has enhanced or changed the way the public understands the past.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-19 |title=Georgia Historical Society Inducts Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Historian Rick Atkinson as 2019 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow |url=https://georgiahistory.com/georgia-historical-society-inducts-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-and-historian-rick-atkinson-as-2019-vincent-j-dooley-distinguished-teaching-fellow/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Georgia Historical Society |language=en-US}}</ref>