Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson is an American journalist and author whose contributions have led to four Pulitzer Prizes. His book In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat is about the Iraq War where he was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division for two months and had extensive contact with David Petraeus. He won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. Atkinson served as the Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the US Army War College and Dickinson College in 2004 and 2005.

Lectures given by Rick Atkinson

Journalism and War

Nov 10, 2006