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D-Day

The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 [the Young Readers Adaptation]

D-Day( )
Author: Atkinson, Rick
Read by: Culp, Jason
ISBN:978-1-4272-5135-0
Publication Date:May 2014
Publisher:Macmillan Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $19.99
Book Description:

Adapted from his bestselling The Guns at Last Light, this historical exploration of D-Day from Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times- bestselling author Rick Atkinson will captivate young listeners. D-Day marked the beginning of the end of World War II. It started the Battle of Normandy, which resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. Atkinson skillfully guides his audience through the events leading up to, and of, the momentous...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.05 x 5.94 x 0.51 Inches
Book Weight:0.242 Pounds
Author Biography
Atkinson, Rick (Author)
Rick Atkinson holds a master of arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and military historian

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.

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