Drawing on hundreds of interviews and oral histories, Ambrose recreates life on the front lines during one of the bloodiest periods of World War II: from D-Day to the Surrender of Germany.
from the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it..
from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy.
It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war.
Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory.
Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day.
In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.
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The most gripping account of the second World War that I have ever read.--Joseph Heller.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and oral histories, Ambrose recreates life on the front lines during one of the bloodiest periods of World War II: from D-Day to the Surrender of Germany
