User Clip: Rick Atkinson taking a question from D. Kinsella
Rick Atkinson answers question about the Battle of the Bulge at the National Book Festival.
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Rick Atkinson answers question about the Battle of the Bulge at the National Book Festival.
Atkinson discusses the extensive amount of informaiton available regarding WW2
Atkinson references Pilgrimage, a poem by Natasha Trethewey, explaining how her words match his ambitions for his writings.
Atkinson discusses what he feels his role as a historian is and how he tries to focus on the "small tragedy that illuminates the larger catastrophe"