Editing Rick Atkinson

{{short description|American author (born 1952)}}
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| birth_name         = Lawrence Rush Atkinson IV
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| birth_place        = [[Munich]], then [[West Germany]]
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'''Lawrence Rush''' "'''Rick'''" '''Atkinson IV''' (born November 15, 1952) is an American author and journalist. 

After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Atkinson turned to writing [[military history]]. His eight books include narrative accounts of five different American wars. He has won [[Pulitzer Prize]]s in history and journalism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SupaduDev |title=Rick Atkinson {{!}} Authors |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/rickatkinson |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Macmillan |language=en-US}}</ref>

His [[The Liberation Trilogy|Liberation Trilogy]], a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in [[World War II]], concluded with the publication of ''The Guns at Last Light'' in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 [[Pritzker Military Library Literature Award|Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rick Atkinson {{!}} Pritzker Military Museum & Library {{!}} Chicago |url=https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/pritzker-literature-award/rick-atkinson-2010-pritzker-literature-award-winner |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=www.pritzkermilitary.org}}</ref> 

==Life and career==
Atkinson was born in [[Munich]] to Margaret (née Howe) and Larry Atkinson, who was a [[U.S. Army]] officer. Turning down an appointment to [[West Point]],<ref>{{cite news
|title=Anyone for War?|first=Tom |last=Buckley|newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 22, 1989 |access-date=November 30, 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/22/books/anyone-for-war.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm}}</ref> he instead attended [[East Carolina University]] on a full scholarship, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in English in 1974. He received a master of arts degree in English language and literature from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uchicago.edu/|title=Pulitzer Prizes|website=www.uchicago.edu}}</ref>

While visiting his parents for Christmas at [[Fort Riley]], Kansas, in 1975, Atkinson found a job as a newspaper reporter for ''[[The Morning Sun (Pittsburg)|The Morning Sun]]'' in [[Pittsburg, Kansas]], covering crime, local government, and other topics in southeast Kansas, an area known as "the Little [[Balkans]]" for its ethnic diversity and fractious politics. In April 1977, he joined the staff of ''[[The Kansas City Times]]'', working nights in suburban [[Johnson County, Kansas]] before moving to the city desk and eventually serving as a national reporter; in 1981, he joined the newspaper's bureau in Washington, D.C. He won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for national reporting in 1982<ref name="Contemporary2">{{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors Online |title-link=Contemporary Authors Online |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |year=2010 |location=[[Detroit]] |chapter=Rick Atkinson |access-date=November 30, 2013 |chapter-url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000003606&source=Bookmark&u=fairfax_main&jsid=151cb828973e737575086bea7f402e95 |via=[[Fairfax County Public Library]]}} Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000003606. Biography in Context. {{subscription required}}</ref> for a "body of work" that included a series about the [[West Point]] class of 1966, which lost more men in [[Vietnam]] than any other [[Military Academy]] class. He also contributed to the newspaper's coverage of the [[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse|Hyatt Regency]] walkway collapse in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], for which the paper's staff in 1982 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for local spot news reporting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-17 |title=Staff of ''Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times'' |website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref>

In November 1983, Atkinson was hired as a reporter on the national staff of ''[[The Washington Post]]''. He wrote about defense issues, the [[1984 U.S. Presidential election|1984 presidential election]]. He covered Rep. [[Geraldine Ferraro]], the first woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party, and national topics. In 1985, he became deputy national editor, overseeing coverage of defense, diplomacy, and intelligence. In 1988, he returned to reporting as a member of the ''Post'' investigative staff, writing about public housing in the District of Columbia and the secret history of Project Senior C.J., which became the [[B-2 stealth bomber]]. In 1991, he was the newspaper's lead writer during the [[Persian Gulf War]]. Two years later he joined the foreign staff as bureau chief in [[Berlin]], covering Germany and [[NATO]] and spending time in Somalia and Bosnia. He returned from Europe in 1996 to become assistant managing editor for investigations; in that role, he headed a seven-member team that for more than a year scrutinized shootings by the District of Columbia police department, resulting in "Deadly Force," a series for which the ''Post'' was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Public Service]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-0 |title=The Washington Post |website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref>

Atkinson left the newspaper world in 1999 to write about [[World War II]], an interest that began with his birth in Germany and was rekindled during his three-year tour in Berlin. He twice rejoined the ''Post'', first in 2003 when for two months he accompanied General [[David Petraeus]] and the [[101st Airborne Division]] during the invasion of [[Iraq]], and again in 2007 when he made trips to Iraq and Afghanistan while writing "Left of Boom", an investigative series about roadside bombs in modern warfare, which won the [[Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense]]. He held the [[Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership]] at the [[United States Army War College]] and [[Dickinson College]] in 2004–2005,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickinson.edu/news/article/976/cnn_and_daily_beast_contributor_appointed_bradley_chair|title=CNN and Daily Beast Contributor Appointed Bradley Chair|first=Christine|last=Dugan|website=www.dickinson.edu}}</ref> and remains an adjunct faculty member at the war college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/pritzker-literature-award/rick-atkinson-2010-pritzker-literature-award-winner|title=Rick Atkinson &#124; Pritzker Military Museum & Library &#124; Chicago|website=www.pritzkermilitary.org}}</ref>

Atkinson is a presidential counselor at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/media/press-releases/national-world-war-ii-museum-names-presidential-counselors|title=The National World War II Museum names Presidential Counselors|website=The National WWII Museum &#124; New Orleans}}</ref> a member of the Society of American Historians,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sah.columbia.edu/members-directory|title=Membership List &#124; Society of American Historians|website=sah.columbia.edu}}</ref> and an inductee in the Academy of Achievement, for which he also serves as a board member.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/director-staff/|title=Directors & Our Team|website=Academy of Achievement}}</ref> He formerly served on the governing commission of the National Portrait Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://npg.si.edu/about-us|title=About Us|date=August 21, 2015|website=npg.si.edu}}</ref> Atkinson is married and has two children.

==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>

==Awards and honors==
* 1982 [[Pulitzer Prize]], National Reporting<ref name="Contemporary2" />
* 1983 [[Livingston Award]] for Young Journalists<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/livingston-awards/winners/past-winners/ |title=Livingston Award for Young Journalists past winners |work=Wallace House |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 1989 [[George Polk Award]] for National Reporting<ref>{{cite web |url=http://liu.edu/George-Polk-Awards/Past-Winners#1989 |title=George Polk Awards past winners |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to The Post for articles on shootings by the District of Columbia police department<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-0 |title=The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2003 Pulitzer Prize in History, ''An Army at Dawn''
* 2003 [[Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/books.html |title=2003 Distinguished Book Awards |publisher=[[Society for Military History]] |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2009 [[Axel-Springer-Preis|Axel Springer Prize]] and fellowship, the American Academy, Berlin<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/ |title=Past Fellows |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2010 [[Pritzker Military Library Literature Award]] for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/pritzker-literature-award/rick-atkinson-2010-pritzker-literature-award-winner/ |title=Pritzker Literary Award |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Samuel Eliot Morison Prize]] for lifetime achievement, [[Society for Military History]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/morison.html |title=Samuel Eliot Morison Prize previous winners |publisher=Society for Military History |access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>
* 2015 [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://helmerichaward.org/winners.php |title=Award Winners |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2020 [[George Washington Book Prize]] ''The British Are Coming,'' for the year's best work on the American founding era<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/george-washington-prize/past-winners/2020/|title=The George Washington Book Prize 2020|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon}}</ref>
*2020 [[New-York Historical Society book prizes|New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American History]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyhistory.org/press/releases/rick-atkinson-be-awarded-new-york-historical-society%E2%80%99s-2020-barbara-and-david|title=New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American History}}</ref> ''The British Are Coming,'' for the year's best work in American history of biography

==Bibliography==

=== Books ===
* {{cite book | year = 1989 | title = The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 | publisher = [[Houghton Mifflin]] | location = Boston | isbn = 0395480086}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6XbAAAAMAAJ|title=The Long Gray Line|isbn=9780395480083|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|year=1989|publisher=Houghton Mifflin }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/the-long-gray-line/|title=The Long Gray Line|date=November 26, 2012 }}</ref>
* {{cite book | year = 1993 | title = Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War | url = https://archive.org/details/crusadeuntoldsto00atki | url-access = registration | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | location = Boston | isbn = 0395710839}}<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVVwADcYOcgC|title=Crusade|isbn=0395710839|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|year=1993|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt }}</ref>
* {{cite book | year = 2002 | title = An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 | title-link = An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 | publisher = [[Henry Holt and Company|Henry Holt]] | location = New York | isbn = 0805062882}} (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 1)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4FDFgWB3aYC|title=An Army at Dawn|isbn=9781429967631|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|date=2007|publisher=Henry Holt and Company }}</ref> (2003 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]])
* {{cite book | year = 2004 | title = In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat | publisher = Henry Holt | location = New York | isbn = 0805075615 | url = https://archive.org/details/incompanyofsoldi00atki_0 }}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C02_8V4R0YEC|title=In the Company of Soldiers|isbn=9780805075618|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|date=March 2004|publisher=Macmillan }}</ref>
* {{cite book | year = 2007 | title = The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 | publisher = Henry Holt | location = New York | isbn = 9780805062892 | url = https://archive.org/details/dayofbattlewarin00atki }} (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 2)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AxX6oQSrPAgC|title=The Day of Battle|isbn=9780805088618|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|date= 2008|publisher=Macmillan }}</ref>
* {{cite news |newspaper=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |year=2007 |title=Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery |location=Washington, D.C.}}<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgWNBwAAQBAJ |title=Where Valor Rests|isbn=9781426214813|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|year=2015|publisher=National Geographic Books }}</ref>
* {{cite book | year = 2013 | title = The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 | publisher = Henry Holt | location = New York | isbn = 9780805062908 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780805062908 }} (The Liberation Trilogy Vol. 3)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUQ9lEHO0QoC|title=The Guns at Last Light|isbn=9781429943673|last1=Atkinson|first1=Rick|date=2013|publisher=Henry Holt and Company }}</ref>
* {{cite book | year = 2019 | title = The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 | publisher = Henry Holt and Co. |isbn = 9781627790437}} (The Revolution Trilogy Vol. 1)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/thebritisharecoming/rickatkinson/9781627790437|title=The British Are Coming &#124; Rick Atkinson &#124; Macmillan|website=[[Macmillan Publishers|US Macmillan]]}}</ref>
* ''The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780.'' Crown. {{ISBN|9780593799185}}. (The Revolution Trilogy Vol. 2, Apr. 29, 2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson: 9780593799185 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763500/the-fate-of-the-day-by-rick-atkinson/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Young Readers Adaptations ===

*{{cite book | year = 2014 | title = D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 | publisher = Henry Holt | location = New York | isbn = 9781627791113}} (The Young Readers Adaptation of ''The Guns of Last Light'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Rick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bc0AwAAQBAJ |title=D-Day |last2=Waters |first2=Kate |date=2014 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9781627791113}}</ref>
* {{cite book | year = 2015 | title = Battle of the Bulge | publisher = Henry Holt | location = New York | isbn = 9781627791137 }} (The Young Readers Adaptation of ''The Guns at Last Light'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Rick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_jIBAAAQBAJ |title=Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation] |date=2015 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |isbn=9781627791144}}</ref>
* ''The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition)''. New York: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. 2022. {{ISBN|9781250800589}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Atkinson |first=Rick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtY2EAAAQBAJ |title=The British Are Coming |date=2022|publisher=Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |isbn=9781250800596 |language=en|edition=Young Readers }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?312637-1/depth-rick-atkinson ''In Depth'' interview with Atkinson, June 2, 2013], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?172901-1/an-army-dawn ''Booknotes'' interview with Atkinson on ''An Army at Dawn'', November 17, 2002], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?178467-13/an-army-dawn Interview with Atkinson on ''An Army at Dawn'', October 4, 2003], [[C-SPAN]]| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?201110-1/after-words-rick-atkinson ''After Words'' interview with Atkinson on ''The Day of Battle'', November 24, 2007], [[C-SPAN]]| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?281368-12/the-day-battle Presentation by Atkinson on ''The Day of Battle'', September 27, 2008], [[C-SPAN]]| video6 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?320033-1/world-war-ii-sicily-italy Presentation by Atkinson on ''The Day of Battle'', June 28, 2014], [[C-SPAN]]| video7 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?315052-10/the-guns-light Presentation by Atkinson on ''The Guns at Last Light'', September 22, 2013], [[C-SPAN]] | video8 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?315052-11/open-phones-rick-atkinson Interview with Atkinson on ''The Guns at Last Light'', September 22, 2013], [[C-SPAN]] | video9 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?180839-5/in-company-soldiers ''Washington Journal'' interview with Atkinson on ''In the Company of Soldiers'', March 5, 2004], [[C-SPAN]] | video10 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?181223-1/in-company-soldiers Presentation by Atkinson on ''In the Company of Soldiers'', March 23, 2004], [[C-SPAN]] | video11 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?460716-1/the-british-coming Presentation by Atkinson on ''The British Are Coming'', May 14, 2019], [[C-SPAN]] | video12 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?463458-18/open-phones-rick-atkinson Interview with Atkinson on ''The British Are Coming'', August 31, 2019], [[C-SPAN]]}}[https://revolutiontrilogy.com/ Website for ''The Revolution Trilogy'']
*[http://www.liberationtrilogy.com/ Website for ''The Liberation Trilogy'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101123232008/http://www.memphis.edu/moch/counterpoint.htm Rick Atkinson interview on Counterpoint Radio] with Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis.
*[https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/rick-atkinson-0 Pulitzer Biography in 2003]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928145718/http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/category/history-and-ancient-civilizations/rick-atkinson/ Reviews of An Army At Dawn and The Day of Battle (Advanced Readers Copy)]
*[https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/rick-atkinson-company-soldiers Interview] on ''In the Company of Soldiers'' on March 17, 2004, at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
*[http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/rick-atkinson-day-battle/ Interview] on ''The Day of Battle'' on October 18, 2007 at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
*[http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/video-rucksack/rick-atkinson-2010-pml-literature-award-lecture/ Presentation] by Rick Atkinson on April 28, 2011 at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
* [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/citizen-soldier/max-hastings-rick-atkinson-embedded-journalist-and-military-history/ Interview] with [[Max Hastings]] at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
* [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/rick-atkinson-guns-last-light/ Lecture] on ''Guns at Last Light'' on May 16, 2013 at [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]]
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20111228215726/http://booknotes.org/Watch/172901-1/Rick+Atkinson.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Atkinson on ''Army at Dawn'', November 17, 2002]
**[https://www.c-span.org/video/?312637-1/depth-rick-atkinson ''In Depth'' interview with Atkinson, June 2, 2013]

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