Citizen Soldiers The U S Army from the

In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestsellerD-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.

Stephen C. Ambrose is the author of numerous books of history, including the New York Times bestsellers Undaunted Courage and D-Day, as well as multivolume biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and President of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana.

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

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Citizen Soldiers The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

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