Rick Atkinson Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 16, 1952
Birthday: November 16
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
source: "Military Historian Writes Of Wars Past And Present". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 1, 2010. 
topic: Spring, Army, Soldier, American Army
