William Hitchcock, professor in the Department of History at the College of Liberal Arts, was recently selected as a finalist for the 93rd annual Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category for The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press, 2008). In the announcement, Hitchcock’s book is described as “a heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar.”