Rick Atkinson is an American author and journalist who worked as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post before turning to military history. His Liberation Trilogy covers the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, beginning with An Army at Dawn, continuing with The Day of Battle, and concluding with The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. Atkinson has won Pulitzer Prizes in both history and journalism, and in 2010 received the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
