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Stephen E. Ambrose combines history and journalism to
describe how American GIs battled their way to the Rhineland. He focuses
on the combat experiences of ordinary soldiers, as opposed to the generals
who led them, and offers a series of compelling vignettes that read like
an enterprising reporter's dispatches from the front lines. The book
presents just enough contextual material to help readers understand the
big picture, and includes memorable accounts of the Battle of the Bulge
and other events as seen through the weary eyes of the men who fought in
the foxholes. Highly recommended for fans of Ambrose, as well as all
readers interested in understanding the life of a 1940s army grunt. A sort
of sequel to Ambrose's bestselling 1994 book D-Day,
Citizen Soldiers is more than capable of standing on its own.
The New York Times
Book Review, Carlo D'Este Stephen
E. Abrose's Citizen Soldiers is a sequel to the story of the
American fighting man in the European theater of operations begun in D-Day,
his acclaimed 1994 account of the Normandy landings in 1994. Although
D-Day was arguably the single most important milestone of the war for the
Allies, it was but one of a series of battles fought to bring about the
defeat of Nazi Germany.... These events have all been well documented, but
in Ambrose's capable hands, the bloody and dramatic battles fought in
northwest Europe in 1944-45 come alive as never before.
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