0
    • Elementary Secondary Higher Ed Common Reads
    0 0
    Download high-resolution image Look inside

    Americans at War

    Author Stephen E. Ambrose
    Look inside
    Paperback
    $27.00 US
    Berkley / NAL | Berkley
    On sale Oct 01, 1998 | 272 Pages | 9780425165102
    Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies

    Collected here for the first time are fifteen essays that span over 100 years of American history--and the remarkable thirty-year career of America's foremost historian and New York Times bestselling author of D-Day, Undaunted Courage, and Citizen Soldiers.

    Stephen E. Ambrose's vivid and compelling essays take you to the heart of America's wars, from Grant's stunning Fourth of July victory at Vicksburg, to Nixon's surprise Christmas bombing of Hanoi. Ambrose brings to life the ambition and charisma that led to Custer's great success in the Civil War and fateful disaster at Little Big Horn. With vivid imagery and precise commentary, he puts you on the beaches of Normandy with the common footsoldier and in the headquarters of America's great commanders, Eisenhower, Patton and MacArthur. He takes you to the trenches of the homefront, ground zero of the Atomic Bomb, and into the arsenals of the twenty-first century.
    Introduction

    Struggle for Vicksburg: The Battles and Siege that Decided the Civil War
    Custer's Civil War
    "Just Dumb Luck": American Entry into World War II
    SIGINT: Deception and the Liberation of Western Europe
    D-Day Revisited
    Victory in Europe: May 1945
    The Atomic Bomb and Its Consequences
    General MacArthur: A Profile
    A Fateful Friendship: Eisenhower and Patton
    The War on the Home Front
    My Lai: Atrocities in Historical Perspective
    The Christmas Bombing
    Eisenhower and NATO
    The Cold War in Perspective
    War in the Twenty-First Century

    Stephen E. Ambrose was the author or coauthor of more than 30 books on military affairs and foreign policy. Early in his career he was an associate editor of the Eisenhower papers, and he later went on to publish the definitive three-part biography of Eisenhower, as well as many bestselling books of military history, including Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage. He died in 2002. View titles by Stephen E. Ambrose
    "Fascinating...compelling."—The Indianapolis Star

    "Ambrose has the great gift of making history come alive."—Anniston Star

    About

    Collected here for the first time are fifteen essays that span over 100 years of American history--and the remarkable thirty-year career of America's foremost historian and New York Times bestselling author of D-Day, Undaunted Courage, and Citizen Soldiers.

    Stephen E. Ambrose's vivid and compelling essays take you to the heart of America's wars, from Grant's stunning Fourth of July victory at Vicksburg, to Nixon's surprise Christmas bombing of Hanoi. Ambrose brings to life the ambition and charisma that led to Custer's great success in the Civil War and fateful disaster at Little Big Horn. With vivid imagery and precise commentary, he puts you on the beaches of Normandy with the common footsoldier and in the headquarters of America's great commanders, Eisenhower, Patton and MacArthur. He takes you to the trenches of the homefront, ground zero of the Atomic Bomb, and into the arsenals of the twenty-first century.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Struggle for Vicksburg: The Battles and Siege that Decided the Civil War
    Custer's Civil War
    "Just Dumb Luck": American Entry into World War II
    SIGINT: Deception and the Liberation of Western Europe
    D-Day Revisited
    Victory in Europe: May 1945
    The Atomic Bomb and Its Consequences
    General MacArthur: A Profile
    A Fateful Friendship: Eisenhower and Patton
    The War on the Home Front
    My Lai: Atrocities in Historical Perspective
    The Christmas Bombing
    Eisenhower and NATO
    The Cold War in Perspective
    War in the Twenty-First Century

    Author

    Stephen E. Ambrose was the author or coauthor of more than 30 books on military affairs and foreign policy. Early in his career he was an associate editor of the Eisenhower papers, and he later went on to publish the definitive three-part biography of Eisenhower, as well as many bestselling books of military history, including Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage. He died in 2002. View titles by Stephen E. Ambrose

    Praise

    "Fascinating...compelling."—The Indianapolis Star

    "Ambrose has the great gift of making history come alive."—Anniston Star

    Other Books by this Author

    Related Articles

    Subscribe

    Penguin Random House Higher Education

    © 2026 Penguin Random House

    Back to Top
    0
    Wish List (0)