442ndRCT Soldier's Forum

This is Rick Atkinson's website for his three books. If you e-mail him he replys.

http://www.liberationtrilogy.com/index.htm

An Army at Dawn is my favorite WWII book (the 34th is heavily focused on, along with the 1st Armored), I highly recommend this series.

Thanks for the announcement Dave, I hadnt realized his second book was finally out. It got seriously delayed as he was an embedded reporter with the 101st Air Assault during OIF in '03 and wrote a book (In the Company of Heroes) about his time with them while putting the book on Sicily/Italy on hold.

Ben, that site is pretty nice, simple but nice. I think it cool for there to be website for the books we love, so we can get a richer picture of what was behind the book.

I don't have the time or patience to sit down an read a book. Also when have tried to read a book (another other place than on the toliet ) I tend to dose off. So I've hooked up with "audible", and get audiobooks.

While Atkins books are on audiobooks, they are abridged(cut down version;i.e. not the whole book). I e-mail Rick and he wrote back that he thought they were "unabridged" and that he actual had an "unbridged" copy. He thank me, and said he would talk to his publisher.

I've read several reviews that his books are great, but the abridged versions just don't do his book justiced. I tempted to just get the audio version that is available and if and when the full version comes, just get it and listen to the whole thing.

I enjoy the audiobooks, some of the guys who do the reading really make the book and stories come to life, we accents, character voices etc.

For those who are interested in audio books I suggest http://www.audible.com All their books have 10-15 minutes sample clips to listen to on line. Even if you don't have a MP3 player you can download books and burn them to CD's.