Author Rick Atkinson was embedded in the 101st (with General David H. Petraeus) for the Washington Post during OIF. Very interesting radio interview in streaming audio from National Public Radio: http://www.wamu.org/dr/ (See the March 30th broadcast.) 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. More at: http://www.anarmyatdawn.com/companyofsoldiers/index.htm New York Times Book Review" -- 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." Back to After Action Review April 2004 Table of Contents Back to After Action Review List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Pete Panzeri. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com