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TITLE: Rick Atkinson: 2008 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Rick Atkinson
EVENT DATE: 09/27/2008
RUNNING TIME: 28 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Journalist Rick Atkinson appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Rick Atkinson, staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, for national reporting, public service and history. He is the author of The New York Times best-seller "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" (Holt paperbacks, September 2008) and the second volume of the Liberation Trilogy, a narrative history of the U.S. Army in North Africa, Italy and Western Europe during World War II. Currently, he is at work on Volume 3 of the trilogy. He lives in the District of Columbia.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2008