Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-023876
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Kyle SmithPeopleAmbrose proves once again he is a masterful historian....Spellbinding....The book captures the bizarre contradictions, random kindness and unexpectedly comic moments of the push to Berlin as memorably as a great war novel., R. Z. SheppardTime Citizen Soldiers [is] a high point in Ambrose's long fascination with the nature of leaders and followers., John Omicinski Detroit Free Press Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers is his best book ever, the culmination of a career largely spent immersed in the details of Ike's war., John OmicinskiDetroit Free PressAmbrose'sCitizen Soldiersis his best book ever, the culmination of a career largely spent immersed in the details of Ike's war., Kyle Smith People Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian....Spellbinding....The book captures the bizarre contradictions, random kindness and unexpectedly comic moments of the push to Berlin as memorably as a great war novel., R. Z. SheppardTimeCitizen Soldiers[is] a high point in Ambrose's long fascination with the nature of leaders and followers., R. Z. Sheppard Time Citizen Soldiers [is] a high point in Ambrose's long fascination with the nature of leaders and followers.
Dewey Decimal
940.54/21
Table Of Content
Contents Maps Introduction and Acknowledgments Prologue PART ONE The Battle for France 1 Expanding the Beachhead, June 7-30, 1944 2 Hedgerow Fighting, July 1-24, 1944 3 Breakout and Encirclement, July 25-August 25, 1944 4 To the Siegfried Line, August 26-September 30, 1944 5 The Siegfried Line, October 1944 PART TWO At the German Border 6 Metz and the Hurtgen Forest, November 1-December 15, 1944 7 The Ardennes, December 16-19, 1944 8 The Ardennes, December 20-23, 1944 9 The Holiday Season, December 24-31, 1944 PART THREE Life in ETO 10 Night on the Line 11 Replacements and Reinforcements, Fall 1944 12 The Air War 13 Medics, Nurses, and Doctors 14 Jerks, Sad Sacks, Profiteers, and Jim Crow 15 Prisoners of War PART FOUR Overrunning Germany 16 Winter War, January 1945 17 Closing to the Rhine, February 1-March 6, 1945 18 Crossing the Rhine, March 7-31, 1945 19 Victory, April 1-May 7, 1945 Epilogue: The GIs and Modern America Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
D756.A52 1997
