Film, Video Rick Atkinson: 2019 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Rick Atkinson: 2019 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Rick Atkinson discussed "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • August 31, 2019

Notes

  • -  Rick Atkinson, who spent nearly 15 years working on his World War II trilogy, was a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post for 25 years. He is the author of "The Long Gray Line," "Crusade," "In the Company of Soldiers" and the best-selling Liberation Trilogy: "An Army at Dawn," "The Day of Battle" and "The Guns at Last Light." A winner of Pulitzer prizes for history and journalism, he has also won many other awards, including the George Polk Award and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. Atkinson's new book is "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777." He lives in Washington, D.C.

Running Time

  • 48 minutes 42 seconds

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  • video
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  • online text

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