Pritzker Military Library
610 N. Fairbanks Court, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
312-587-0234
Member reception: 5:00pm
Interview with Ed Tracy and Live Webcast: 6:00pm
Books are available for purchase at author events courtesy of The Book Stall at Chestnut Court. Library members receive a 10% discount.
Rick Atkinson is the recipient of the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He is currently at work on volume 3 of his trilogy about the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II. The first volume, An Army at Dawn, won acclaim for its brilliantly researched, deeply felt narrative of the Allied campaign in North Africa. It was followed by The Day of Battle, which interwove portraits of Eisenhower, Patton, Roosevelt, and Churchill with unforgettable images of soldiers confronted with the transformative effect of fear and violence. He is also the author of In the Company of Soldiers, which followed the 101st Airborne Division and Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq; Crusade, a narrative history of the Persian Gulf War; and The Long Gray Line, a narrative account of West Point’s class of 1966.
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