Blogs about: Rick Atkinson
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Acquisition: An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942 - 1943 Plus...
Just a note that I’ve picked up a copy of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson. This book, the first in his Liberation Trilogy, won the Pulitzer Prize. I was quit… more →
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The Day of Battle
wrote 8 months ago: Whew. I’m spent. It took my a while, but I finally slogged through The Day of Battle, the seco … more →
Media
wrote 10 months ago: I said in my last post that I wouldn’t be able to handle being in a war. How do I know this? O … more →
Acquisition: An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942 - 1943 Plus...
wrote 1 year ago: Just a note that I’ve picked up a copy of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 … more →
Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
wrote 1 year ago: Rick Atkinson. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Se … more →
Military History word of the day: "thalassocracy"
wrote 1 year ago: I ran across this word in my reading today and have added it to “the terms” page (here) … more →
War Stories: History & Fiction
wrote 1 year ago: We’ve got a new book group starting at the Library this fall. Patron Clyde Cooke will be lead … more →
Reading Thoughts Summer 2008
wrote 1 year ago: I am reading, perusing and sometimes devouring the following books in my summer pile (some of them I … more →
An Army at Dawn
wrote 1 year ago: From time to time, my history comes back on me. I’ll be diddy-bopping along with my boring li … more →
