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Weinberg, professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of several seminal military history books, including A World at Arms (1995) and Visions of Victory (2005), won the 2009 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This article originally appeared in the November 2009 issue of World War II magazine.

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