books by Rick Atkinson
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Rick Atkinson
Instructions for American Servicemen in France during World War II
United States Army
University Of Chicago Press
, 2008
Speaking democracy in a different voice
As the Allies prepared the European invasion at Normandy, Pentagon and OSS authors put together a small pamphlet for GIs to take with them: Instructions for American Servicemen in France. Similar pamphlets were on the drawing board for all the European countries that ...
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks
, 2005
War
An excellent book. Rick Atkinson really knows how to research a subject. To read his books is like being there
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks
, 1999
By far the best book I have ever read
This is one excellent book. It is a must read for people who have been in the military and for that fact, anyone and everyone. This book starts with the Class of 1966 as the enter Westpoint. They start out as freshmen (I believe the term was plebes), the book takes ...
Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
Rick Atkinson
Mariner Books
, 1994
Exciting And Well Written
I am ashamed to admit that this excellent book sat on my bookshelf for a number of years while I read untold numbers of lesser books. I had heard it was a good book, which was the reason I purchased it, and it turns out that everything positive that lead me to buy the ...
War As I Knew It
George S. Patton
Mariner Books
, 1995
How to Win War
The brilliant military leader and strategist General George S. Patton, Jr., presents his World War 2 autobiography with "War As I Knew It". First published in 1947, this remarkable 425-page book has often been republished (including this review's 1995 paperback). ...
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation ...
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks
, 2007
Incredible research, scholarship and writing
I remember World War II as a kid on the home front. This book is an absolute masterpiece. The Notes alone are worth reading in their entirety. The author cites personal interviews, correspondence, and even Box numbers from little known Army archives. His mastery of ...
Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery
Rick Atkinson
National Geographic
, 2007
Excellent Book on Arlington
Stunning pictures and moving text combine to give you an awe inspiring tour of probably the most revered area of the United States. You may have visited Arlington on a tour of Washington D.C., but Rick Atkinson and National Geographic takes you past the tourists and ...
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co.
, 2007
Great Job
Another wow from Rick Atkinson. Loved this book as much as an Army at Dawn. Can hardly wait for #3 in the liberation trilogy.
Left of Boom: The Struggle to Defeat Roadside Bombs in Iraq and Afgthanistan
Rick Atkinson
The Washington Post
, 2007
The essence of future warfare
Outside of a couple paragraphs of typical Washington Post RealPolitik (Bush bashing, doubt Washington Post editors could/would ever publish anything without it), this more than anything else I've read so far illustrates the essence of the military battle/challenge ...
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44
Rick Atkinson
Little, Brown
, 2007
Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic
Kevin Walton
, Rick Atkinson
Images (GB)
, 1996
The Long Gray Line/My Turn/A Place for Us/Funny Business (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 8: ...
Rick Atkinson,
Nancy Reagan
, ...
Reader's Digest Association
, 1990
Condensed books by the Editors of Reader's Digest by special permission of publishers, authors, and holders of copyrights. Hardcover edition.
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
, 2004
For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat. Now, in this ...
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