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ZIN Product Number: 10186228
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 Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Edition: 1 TOUCHSTO
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0684856298
Release Date: Jan 1, 1997
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 10 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
From America's pre-eminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, 11 months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive D-Day and Citizen Soldiers, about which the great Civil War historian James McPherson wrote: 'If there is a better book about the experience of GIs who fought in Europe during World War II, I have not read it.'
Citizen Soldiers captures the fear and exhilaration of combat, the hunger and cold and filth of the foxholes, the small intense world of the individual rifleman as well as the big picture of the European theater in a manner that grips the reader and will not let him go. No one who has not been there can understand what combat is like but Stephen Ambrose brings us closer to an understanding than any other historian has done.The Victors also includes stories of individual battles, raids, acts of courage and suffering from Pegasus Bridge, an account of the first engagement of D-Day, when a detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion; and from Band of Brothers an account of an American rifle company from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment who fought, died, and conquered, from Utah Beach through the Bulge and on to Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Germany.
Stephen Ambrose is also the author of Eisenhower, the greatest work on Ike, and one of the editors of the Supreme Allied Commander's papers. He describes the momentous decisions about how and where the war was fought, and about the strategies and conduct of the generals and officers who led the invasion and the bloody drive across Europe to Berlin.
But it is, as always with Stephen Ambrose, the ranks, the ordinary boys and men, who command his attention and his awe. The Victors tells their stories, how citizens became soldiers in the best army in the world. Ambrose draws on thousands of interviews and oral histories from government and private archives, from the high command -- Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton -- on down through officers and enlisted men, to re-create the last year of the Second World War when the Allied soldiers pushed the Germans out of France, chased them across Germany, and destroyed the Nazi regime.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 10 Average Rating:
Terrific Book
-- A reviewer, a 31 year old attorney from NYC, August 10, 2000
Terrific Book
-- A reviewer, a 31 year old attorney from NYC, August 10, 2000
i did not understand why it reeked so badly
-- dan ralphson, December 2, 2000
i did not understand why it reeked so badly
-- dan ralphson, December 2, 2000
the greatest da'gum thing ever written
-- ray, December 2, 2000
the greatest da'gum thing ever written
-- ray, December 2, 2000
Not Mr. Ambrose's best book on WWII
-- Richard Beattie, a national sales manager from Miss., January 3, 2001
Also Recommended: THE RAPE OF NANKING by Iris Chang, well-written account of pre-WWII Japanese brutality that gets too little mention in our schools; FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER by Loung Ung is a sensitive first-person account of the Cambodian civil war
Not Mr. Ambrose's best book on WWII
-- Richard Beattie, a national sales manager from Miss., January 3, 2001
Also Recommended: THE RAPE OF NANKING by Iris Chang, well-written account of pre-WWII Japanese brutality that gets too little mention in our schools; FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER by Loung Ung is a sensitive first-person account of the Cambodian civil war
this book upset my stomach
-- rudolf housmann, December 2, 2000
this book upset my stomach
-- rudolf housmann, December 2, 2000
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
A vivid tapestry of combat memoirs woven by the unrivaled master of the form. —Geoffrey C. Ward
| |  | | | | Introduction | 11 | | 1 PREPARATION | 15 | | 2 GETTING STARTED | 35 | | 3 PLANNING AND TRAINING FOR OVERLORD | 51 | | 4 "OK, LET'S GO" | 69 | | 5 THE OPENING HOURS OF D-DAY | 86 | | 6 UTAH BEACH | 105 | | 7 OMAHA BEACH | 117 | | 8 POINTE-DU-HOC | 143 | | 9 THE BRITISH AND CANADIAN BEACHES | 158 | | 10 THE END OF THE DAY | 181 | | 11 HEDGEROWS | 188 | | 12 BREAKOUT AND PURSUIT | 220 | | 13 AT THE GERMAN BORDER | 237 | | 14 METZ, AACHEN, AND THE HURTGEN | 249 | | 15 THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE | 272 | | 16 NIGHT ON THE LINE | 295 | | 17 THE RHINELAND BATTLES | 308 | | 18 OVERRUNNING GERMANY | 333 | | 19 THE GIs | 349 | | Sources | 355 | | Index | 380 | | The Invasion of France, June 6-August 25, 1944 | 76-77 | | The Defeat of Germany, August 1944-May 1945 | 218-19 |
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