![]() Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence.įrom the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. ![]() ![]() He has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. The award honors the first installment of his planned trilogy about the American Revolution, which emphasizes the conflict’s costs and uncertainties.Ītkinson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II. ![]() Rick Atkinson, the author of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, has been named the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, awarded each year to the best work in the field of American history and biography. ![]()
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