Historian Rick Atkinson digs deep into Revolutionary War with new book
(WorldNews Entertainment)

NEW YORK (AP) - As he researched the first volume of his planned American Revolution trilogy, Rick Atkinson traveled from the battlefields of Massachusetts to London`s Windsor Castle, where he looked through the papers of King George III. `I was there for a month and every day would show my badge at Henry VIII Gate, and climb the Round Tower,` he told The Associated Press during a recent telephone interview. `And there are the papers. It`s a very tactile sense of being in George`s presence.` Atkinson`s `The British are Coming` (Henry Holt & Co.) is his ninth book, and his first since completing his acclaimed `Liberation Trilogy` on World War II. He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner...