The War for America with Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson talks with us about his trilogy on the War for Independence, beginning wit the first volume, The British Are Coming:  Lexington to Princeton 1775-1777, a masterpiece of historical narrative.  He helps us see past the familiar history and to understand the war for Independence in a new and interesting ways.  The first volume of Rick Atkinson's World War 2 trilogy, An Army at Dawn, received the Pulitzer Prize in History.  A veteran journalist and war correspondent, Atkinson has written about the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars, and is now turning his keen eye on the War for Independence.   

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