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Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of American Heritage New History of World War II (1997), Rise to Globalism (1997), Halleck (1996), Undaunted Courage (1996), D-nap 1944. június 6 (1994).

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American Heritage New History of World War II

release date: Jan 01, 1997
American Heritage New History of World War II
Historian Stephen Ambrose updates the classic World War II history written by C.L. Sulzberger.

Rise to Globalism

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Rise to Globalism
Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this eighth revised edition of "Rise to Globalism" now in paperback offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present. Ambrose also wrote bestsellers "Undaunted Courage" and "D-Day".

Halleck

release date: Apr 01, 1996
Halleck
“Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing.” Lincoln’s secretary of the navy Gideon Welles’s harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure. Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers’ failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that “by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure,” but maintains he was nonetheless “the ‘Old Brains’ of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation.”

Undaunted Courage

release date: Feb 15, 1996
Undaunted Courage
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West.

D-nap 1944. június 6

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Upton and the Army

release date: Aug 01, 1993
Upton and the Army
Emory Upton (1839–1881) was “the epitome of a professional soldier,” according to Stephen E. Ambrose. Indeed, his entire adult life was devoted to the single-minded pursuit of a military career. Upton was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Fifth United States Artillery on May 6, 1861, the day of his graduation from the United States Military Academy, and by age twenty-five he had risen to the rank of major general. He distinguished himself in battles at Spotsylvania, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Charlottesville, in Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley campaign, and in Wilson’s celebrated cavalry raid through Alabama and Georgia at the end of the war. After the war, Upton traveled abroad as an observer for the army, an experience that resulted in his first book, The Armies of Asia and Europe. He also served as commandant of cadets at West Point and finally as commander of the Presidio in San Francisco. He was highly respected as a military tactician, and his Infantry Tactics became a widely used resource. Despite his successes, the ambitious Upton felt that his military talents were insufficiently recognized. His last book, The Military Policy of the United States, which advocated a number of sweeping changes in the organization of the American military system, went unpublished at his death by suicide in 1881. The book was finally published in 1904 at the urging of Elihu Root, Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary of war. First published in 1964, Ambrose’s thorough and well-researched study of Emory Upton’s career has proven to be an important addition to American military history as well as to the history of the Civil War.

Pegasus Bridge

release date: Nov 15, 1988
Pegasus Bridge
Recounts the initial airborne mission that paved the way for the Normandy landings, detailing the mission''s preparations, hand-to-hand fighting, heroics, and importance

Nixon

release date: Jan 01, 1987
Nixon
Volume one of Nixon''s biography.

Nixon: The education of a politician, 1913-1962

release date: Jan 01, 1987
Nixon: The education of a politician, 1913-1962
From acclaimed biographer Stephen E. Ambrose comes the life of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon. From his difficult boyhood and earnest youth to bis ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60 and '62, Nixon emerges life-size in all his complexity. Ambrose charts the peaks and valleys of Nixon's first fifty years -- his critical support as a freshman congressman of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; his involvement in the House Committee on Un-American Activities; his aggressive pursuit of Alger Hiss; his ambivalent relationship with Eisenhower; and more. It is the consummate biography; it is a stunning political odyssey.

Nixon: The triumph of a politician, 1962-1972

release date: Jan 01, 1987
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