Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevent…

- Rick Atkinson

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans a…

- Rick Atkinson

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, …

- Rick Atkinson

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women…

- Rick Atkinson

I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challeng…

- Rick Atkinson

There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the…

- Rick Atkinson

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful …

- Rick Atkinson

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The st…

- Rick Atkinson

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

- Rick Atkinson