In the company of soldiers a chronicle of combat
For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Ar,y in combat. Central...
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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Simon & Schuster Audio,
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| Summary: | For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Ar,y in combat. Central to the drama is Major General David H. Petraeus, as he teaches, goads, and leads his troops and subordinate commanders in several intense battles. |
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| Physical Description: | 5 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: | 0743536460 |
| Author Notes: | Atkinson is the author of the highly-acclaimed Liberation Trilogy, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. Atkinson received the Pulitzer Prize for the first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. The second volume, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, drew praise as well. Atkinson also received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; and the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to the Washington Post for a series of investigative articles directed and edited by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department. He is winner of the 1989 George Polk Award for national reporting, the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, and the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College. In 2014 his title The Guns at Last Light made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) |
