In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat

For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. Rick Atkinson would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post. In this extraordinary account, Atkinson presents an intimate, wry, and revealing portrait of the soldiers who fight the expeditionary conflicts that have become the hallmark of our age.