Publisher Description
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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“What a read! Explores the Great war from the point of view of the grunt,not just Generals but a focus on the men in the field. My Dad was one of those guys- and I never really was able to capture the deprivations he endured before Steve Ambrose gave the stories wings. What a compelling series of narratives- and the comparisons to other historic events- like why this was worse on the grunts than the Civil war, or Napoleon’s retreat from Russia were totally unexpected. If your family was connected to WW2- like its possible they weren’t- read this one”
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Barry (4 out of 5 stars)
