“To his brother Edgar he confided, “I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started,… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“To make it perfectly clear to you: suppose you lose a hand or an ear is shot off, or perhaps a piece… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I could hear them yell and laugh each time and there was nothing I could do about it…. I saw them do… — Rick Atkinson Time Copy Share Image
“The largest contingent of invaders—drawn from the U.S. 1st Infantry and 1st Armored divisions aboard thirty-four transport ships—would storm ashore at Beach… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest. — Rick Atkinson Another Copy Share Image
“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and… — Rick Atkinson Study Of History Copy Share Image
“If U-boats torpedoed a transport during the Atlantic passage, how many destroyers should be left behind to pick up survivors? Hewitt was… — Rick Atkinson Every day Copy Share Image
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost… — Rick Atkinson Absolutely Copy Share Image
“TWO hundred and thirty nautical miles southeast of Gibraltar, Oran perched above the sea, a splinter of Europe cast onto the African… — Rick Atkinson Red wine Copy Share Image
“blared “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” clearly audible on the hillcrest, where a lieutenant who was immune to the prevailing confidence of… — Rick Atkinson Confidence Copy Share Image
“The troops also edged toward that timeless state common to veteran armies in which the men trusted no one less wretched than… — Rick Atkinson Every day Copy Share Image
“In the first half of 1944, battle casualty rates for every 1,000 bomber crewmen serving six months in combat included 712 killed… — Rick Atkinson Six months Copy Share Image
“In less than three years he would be the most celebrated American battle captain of the twentieth century, a man whose name—like… — Rick Atkinson Three years Copy Share Image
“If you don’t succeed, I don’t want to see you alive,” he advised. “I see no point in surviving defeat, and I… — Rick Atkinson Failure Copy Share Image
In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically,… — Rick Atkinson Acting Copy Share Image
“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these… — Rick Atkinson West coast Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had inelegantly called “the tired spot that can’t be got at.” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And… — Rick Atkinson About Copy Share Image
I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take… — Rick Atkinson Another Copy Share Image
“The balance of the campaign—indeed, the balance of the war—would require learning not only how to fight but how to rule.” — Rick Atkinson War Copy Share Image
“A forward patrol reported capturing a French headquarters near La Sénia, five miles south of Oran, but the office safe yielded only… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Occasionally the ideals seemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, but in times of moral quandary a conscientious officer… — Rick Atkinson Time Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson About Copy Share Image
