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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriorsby Stephen E. Ambrose , Kenneth Francis Dewey, Walter T. VitousISBN 0354040065 (0-354-04006-5)
Hardcover, MacDonald & Company (Publishers), Limited
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Eisenhowerby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0049230735 (0-04-923073-5)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin, Limited
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Ikeby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0060200766 (0-06-020076-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Ike:Abilene to Berlin: The Life of Dwight D. Eisenhower from His Childhood in Abilene, Kansas, through His Command of the Allied Forces in Europe in World War IIby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0060200758 (0-06-020075-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery An Illustrated Historyby Stephen E. Ambrose , Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Erica Funkhouser, William Least Heat MoonISBN 0375706526 (0-375-70652-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Military and American Society: Essays and Readingsby Stephen E. Ambrose , James A. BarberISBN 0029005507 (0-02-900550-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Pegasus Bridge: 6 June 1944by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0049230794 (0-04-923079-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938by Stephen E. Ambrose , Douglas G. BrinkleyISBN 0140268316 (0-14-026831-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hardcover, Penguin Books - Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938: ISBN 0140268316 (0-14-026831-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhowerby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0304938181 (0-304-93818-1)
Hardcover, Cassell P L C
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Ambrose brings Eisenhowers experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the generals skill as a diplomat and a military strategist contributed to Allied successes in North Africa and in Europe, and established him as one of the greatest military leaders in the world. Ambrose, then the Associate Editor of the Generals official papers, analyzes Eisenhowers difficult military decisions and his often complicated relationships with powerful personalities like Churchill, de Gaulle, Roosevelt, and Patton. This is the definitive account of Eisenhowers evolution as a military leaderfrom its dramatic beginnings through his time at the top post of Allied command. [via]More editions of The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower:
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War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War IIby Stephen E. Ambrose , Michael C.C. Adams, G. Boritt, Ira BerlinISBN 019508845X (0-19-508845-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The range of essays here is remarkable, the level of insight consistently high, and the quality of the writing is superb. For instance, Stephen Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, June 6th, 1944, offers an intriguing comparison of the two great military leaders of each war--Grant and Eisenhower. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert V. Bruce takes a revealing look at the events that foreshadowed the two wars. Gerald Linderman, author of Embattled Courage, examines the two wars from the point of view of the combat soldier. And Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., describes how both Lincoln and FDR went around strict observance of the Constitution in order to preserve the Constitution. There is, in addition, a fascinating discussion of the crucial role played by spying during the two wars, by Peter Maslowski; a look at the diplomacy of Lincoln and Roosevelt, by Howard Jones; and essays on the impact of the wars on women and on African Americans, by D'Ann Campbell, Richard Jensen, and Ira Berlin. In perhaps the most gripping piece in the book, Michael C.C. Adams offers an unflinching look at war's destructiveness, as he argues that the evils we associate with "bad wars" (such as Vietnam) are equally true of "good wars." And finally, in perhaps the most provocative essay in the book, Russell Weigley, one of America's most eminent military historians, maps the evolution of American attitudes toward war to our present belief that the only acceptable war is one that is short, inexpensive, and certain of victory. Would any great commander, Weigley asks, would a Lee or a Grant or a Marshall, refuse to fight unless he knew he couldn't lose? "Is not a willingness to run risks for the sake of cherished values and interests close to the heart of what defines greatness in a human being or in a nation?"
Another Pulitzer winner and World War II veteran, Don E. Fehrenbacher, concludes War Comes Again with a very personal look at two common soldiers who have no monuments, who have not been mentioned in previous histories, but who point at the essence of these two wars and are "embedded in the very structure of the enduring nation and the world we live in." [via]More editions of War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II:
What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby Stephen E. Ambrose , Robert CowleyISBN 0333751833 (0-333-75183-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: Civil War Letters of James K. Newtonby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0299024849 (0-299-02484-9)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Witness to America : An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Todayby Douglas Brinkley, Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0062716115 (0-06-271611-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witness to America : An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today'Book summary:Witness to America, a marvelous anthology of eyewitness accounts to key events in American history, opens with an act of rebellion: the Boston Tea Party of November 1773, when American tax resisters dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded a British vessel and dumped its cargo of tea overboard to protest a newly imposed duty on the much-used stimulant. It closes with another act of rebellion: the attempted impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, the long-sought dream of the makers of the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994. The first was reported by a participant, George Hewes, the second by a journalist, Michael Kinsley; but both acts reveal much about the values of the nation with the passage of time, and both documents will be of value to anyone seeking to understand America's political history now and in the future.
Editors Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, who are among the best-known American historians working today, understand the importance of such firsthand accounts to chroniclers of the past. They also understand that for too many Americans, "the word history implies an arid pedantry associated with dusty libraries and musty monographs." They've chosen the documents in this first-rate anthology with an eye to proving that history need not be dull, and the selections tell much that the standard textbooks do not, whether it be the mule-meat-and-bad-bean diet of the Confederates besieged at Vicksburg or the cold-war ravings of Beat Generation patron saint Jack Kerouac. At once entertaining and highly instructive, this book belongs in every history buff's library. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Todayby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0060996188 (0-06-099618-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Year of Decision 1846by Bernard Augustine De Voto, Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0312267940 (0-312-26794-0)
Softcover, Griffin
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