In the Company of Soldiers
A Chronicle of Combat
by Rick Atkinson
Listen to Rick read from
the audiobook
"Atkinson actually learned he'd won the 2003
Pulitzer for An Army at Dawn, his history of the World War II North African
campaign, while he was eating dust in the push toward Baghdad. So you'd expect
this new volume, In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat, would be
the most intimate, vivid and well-informed account yet published of those major
combat operations that President Bush declared at an end on May 1. And it is."
--New York Times Book Review
This is the story of any and every
war; of every soldier’s anxieties, frustrations, endurance, and even
their small joys. Embedded along-side a remarkable group of soldiers
for two months, Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Rick
Atkinson had the extraordinary opportunity to get inside one of the
most storied combat units in the U.S. Army, the 101st Airborne
Division -– the original "band of brothers." In the Company of
Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat is his first-person account from
the Iraqi battlefield, and an intimate, fresh view of our modern
soldiers in action.
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