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He won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942 – 1943, which was followed by the second volume in what Atkinson calls his " Liberation trilogy ", The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943 – 1944.

While at work on the third volume, he received the $ 100, 000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.