John Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journalism, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Pulitzer Prize for History, 2003
Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College, 2004–05
Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing, 2010
Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellow, honor bestowed by the Georgia Historical Society, 2019
-other awards in journalism
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Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777, the first volume in the Revolution Trilogy. He has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism.[2]
After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing military history. His seven books include narrative accounts of five different American wars.
His 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 for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.[3] 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.[4]
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^SupaduDev. "Rick Atkinson | Authors". Macmillan. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
^"Rick Atkinson | Pritzker Military Museum & Library | Chicago". www.pritzkermilitary.org. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
^"Georgia Historical Society Inducts Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Historian Rick Atkinson as 2019 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow". Georgia Historical Society. November 19, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington...
origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the U.S. Army. RickAtkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR, and a bevy of other terms to cynical...
United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author RickAtkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. The first volume, An Army at Dawn...
This has started to change, with books such as The Day of Battle by RickAtkinson, in which he describes Allied war crimes in Italy, and D-Day: The Battle...
interservice rivalries. A number of military slang terms are acronyms. RickAtkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up), FUBAR...
2307/1984650. JSTOR 1984650. Atkinson, Rick (2002). An Army at Dawn. New York: Picador. ISBN 978-0-8050-8724-6. Atkinson, Rick (2013). The Guns at Last Light...
formidable obstacle to any attacking force. Other historians, including RickAtkinson, assign lesser importance for Ortona. He quotes Field Marshal Albert...
basket weaving and things like that," as Vonda contemptuously put it. — RickAtkinson, The Long Gray Line This is no surprise, as normal office job functions...
generally attributing it to the United States Army.[citation needed] RickAtkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR, and a bevy of other terms to cynical...
the burning city and rescued civilians during the night. According to RickAtkinson, this was "the only large, long-range air strike by German bombers during...
Atkinson (1920–1994), British prehistorian and archaeologist Richard Merrill Atkinson (1894–1947), U.S. Representative from Tennessee RickAtkinson (born...
ounces [57 g] and has a muzzle velocity of 900 meters per second.) — RickAtkinson, The Washington Post EFPs have been used in improvised explosive devices...
Prize–winning book written in 2002 by long-time Washington Post correspondent RickAtkinson. The book is a history of the North African Campaign, particularly focused...
June 22, 2010. Atkinson, Rick (January 7, 2007). "Iraq Will be Petraeus' Knot to Untie". The Washington Post. p. A15. Atkinson, Rick, In the Company...
wandering around a city alone with nothing to do." The Record critic RickAtkinson described "Hot Blooded" as using a common rock and roll opening and...
Martin "Rick" Atkinson III is an American politician. He is a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from the 11th district. "Governor...
the Evolution of Flight. Texas A&M UP. p. 78. ISBN 978-1585444137. RickAtkinson (2013). The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945...
virtually ceased to exist; only 40 men made it back to the Allied lines. RickAtkinson described the intense German resistance: Artillery and Nebelwerfer drumfire...
The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 10 February 1948. pp. 1009–1025. Atkinson, Rick (2007), The Day of Battle, The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944, The...
from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Finalist 2003 RickAtkinson An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 Winner Philip Dray...
2008 (2008): Allan R. Millett 2009 (2009): Gerhard Weinberg 2010 (2010): RickAtkinson 2011 (2011): Carlo D'Este 2012 (2012): Sir Max Hastings 2013 (2013):...
prisoners; 101,784 German, 89,442 Italian and 47,017 others. In 2004, RickAtkinson wrote that a quarter of a million prisoners is a reasonable estimate...
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