The International Conference on WWII – Meet the Speakers

The National WWII Museum’s annual International Conference on WWII is just around the corner. Conference hotel rooms are nearly gone and the All-Access passes are selling fast. Anyone who has ever attended the Museum’s Conference can attest that this is an experience not to be missed. But just in case you might still be on the fence. We’d like to introduce you to some of our esteemed speakers in a series of upcoming blog posts. Today’s featured speaker is multiple Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author, Rick Atkinson.
 

Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers and Crusade. Other awards include a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, the George Polk Award and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. Atkinson holds a Master of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Chicago and was formerly a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post. He currently sits on the Museum’s “Presidential Counselors” advisory board.

Atkinson recently completed his Liberation Trilogy with the release of The Guns At Last Light. Museum supporters were treated to a special pre-release event at the Museum last spring. Rick was also kind enough to give Museum web visitors a sneak peek into topics covered in the book.

View The Guns At Last Light  video series here.

Find out more about the International Conference on WWII.