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World War II historian Carlo D'Este has won the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement.
D'Este, whose books include Decision in Normandy and Bitter Victory, will be award $100,000 for his military scholarship. The Chicago-based Tawani Foundation sponsors the award.
Previous recipients of the prize, which was founded in 2007, include James M. McPherson and Rick Atkinson.
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I want to read that book. He is in great company with those other writers. I am dying for the next book by Atkinson. The best broadly focused books on World War II ever written. Even better than John Keegan's.
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