His talent as a writer and reporter and his unparalleled expertise in Literary Affairs were a gift to the post into her readers. Get with this latest book, rick reminds us again is discontinuing different form, as an historian. The guns at last light the war in western europe 19441945 is the final installment in his trilogy about world war ii. He dedicated nearly 15 years of his life to these three remarkable volumes. Los Angeles Times has called the liberation trilogy a masterpiece of deep reporting and rich storytelling. The New York Times review calls it at that again this finale a tapestry of richness and complexity. The Washington Post reviewer described the process achingly sublime. Now its 877 pages, but the reviewer noted while saying this is a very long book this one seemed too short. In a recent interview with the National World war ii museum, rick remarked on the necessity of remembering and telling the story of this sort what he called the greatest selfinflicted catastrophe
And to keep up with our latest history news. The seven days anniversary of the german surrender to allies in 1945. Next author Rick Atkinson examines the last year of world war ii in europe in his book, the guns at last flight. He focused on the National Mall in 2013. This is about 45 minutes. Now to our author and speaker, writ rick attkisson. It is my personal misfortune that i arrived too late to work with him. He is rightly regarded as one of the most distinguished journalists of our time. His talents as a writer and a reporter, and unparalleled expertise in military affairs were a gift to the post and our readers. With his latest book, rick reminds us again that his he continues in different form, as a historian. The guns at last light is the final installment in his trilogy about world war ii. He dedicated nearly 15 years of his life to these three remarkable volumes. Alled the liberation trilogy a masterpiece of deep reporting and rich the New York Times review calls the childre
Liberation trilogy a masterpiece of deep reporting and rich storytelling. The New York Times review calls it at that again this finale a tapestry of richness and complexity. The Washington Post reviewer described the process achingly sublime. Now its 877 pages, but the reviewer noted while saying this is a very long book, this one seemed too short. In a recent interview with the National World war ii museum, rick remarked on the necessity of remembering and telling the story of this sort, what he called the greatest selfinflicted catastrophe in Human History. 60 million dead, one life snuffed out every three seconds for six years. Rick added of more than 60 million American Veterans of world war ii, if you than 2 million remain alive. When i contemplate what is lost as culturally as they slip into the shadows at the rate of 800 a day, foremost perhaps is the ability to bear witness, to tell the story firsthand, to attest to the authenticity and authority why they fought suffered and di
Its really exciting. And be, of course, its a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. Host you also have another project coming out after that . Guest ah, the world. Host the history of the world. A biography . Guest yeah. Im going to do a history of the world after that. Ive been it was my publishers idea. And they said to me, like, would you do it . Its not going to be a long, in fact, its more of a literary book, more of a philosophical week. Its not going to have its not going to be like the sort of pantheon book of history, you know, with everything, everything in it. Its actually going on what fascinates me in history, and its going to be probably the shortest book ive written, in fact, of all my books because its just going to be, its going to be a literary and philosophical look at life and the world. But through the lives of people. So thats why its called a biography, rather like i did in jerusalem. So thats going to be one hell of a challenge, too, but its wildly ex
Schieffer one of the things we all you a degree on here at face the nation is that we all love the news, but the other thing is, we tall really love a good book. Sometimes when the news is so bad we dont even like to talk about it. I advise people just read a good book. We thought wed gather some of our favorite authors today, all of whom have new books out this year, to talk about books and writing. Michael connelly has written 18 harry bosch mysteries. About the lincoln lawyer. Terry mcmillan how stella got her groove back has new one ought who asked you. George saunders writes short storiesi has new collection is the 10th of december. And its on the New York Times book review top ten list for 2013. Finally our old friend Rick Atkinson who i knew when you used to be just a reporter now he is a Pulitzer Prize winner, finished his liberation trilogy, the guns at last night which focuses on western europe and the end of world war ii. His series the army at dawn were honored to have all