Pulitzer-Prize Winner To Speak at Lovett School

From the Lovett School:

Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer-Prize winning author and military historian, will present a lecture at Lovett on Thursday, September 15, at 6:00 pm in the Hendrix-Chenault Theater. In his lecture, "World War II: The Ascent of American Character," he will discuss America's role in the war, particularly in the final liberation of Europe, and how the United States grew from a puny combat force with fewer than 200,000 soldiers to a stupendous military and economic powerhouse of more than 16 million in uniform.

Rick Atkinson recently completed The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945, the final volume of his Liberation Trilogy, a narrative history of the U.S. military’s role in the liberation of Europe in World War II.

Atkinson is also the best-selling author of The Long Gray Line, a narrative saga about the West Point class of 1966, and Crusade, a narrative history of the Persian Gulf War. He also wrote In the Company of Soldiers, an account of his time with General David H. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Atkinson served as a reporter, foreign correspondent, senior editor, and assistant managing editor for 25 years at the Washington Post. His journalism career began at the Pittsburg (Kansas) Morning Sun in 1976; in 1977, he moved to the Kansas City Times, before going to the Washington Post in 1983. Among other assignments, he served as the Post’s Berlin bureau chief, covering not only Germany and NATO, but also spending considerable time in Somalia and Bosnia. This event is free of charge and open to the community.

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