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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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They came together in the summer of 1942. It was as good a rifle company as any in the world. Here is the story of E Company--men who went hungry, froze, and died for each other--from the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to their disbanding in 1945. Advancing through Europe, the men of Easy Company found the closest brotherhood they'd ever know. (Published: 2002)
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-1945 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Here is the story of the heroism, skill, and daring of the young men of World War II who were the pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners flying over Germany in crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s, fighting to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the Nazi war machine. (Published: 2001)
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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Historian Stephen Ambrose begins this celebration of friendships with his own brothers. He then writes of brothers Milton and Dwight D. Eisenhower. He writes of soldiers in combat from Normandy to Germany. He recounts Lewis and Clark, Crazy Horse and He Dog, the Custer brothers, and more. Finally, he writes of his own friendship with his father. (Published: 2001)
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad--the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous wor... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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The Cold War [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of inf... more info>>
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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In To America, Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the country's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as an American historian and explains what an historian's job is all about. He celebrates America's spirit, which has carried us so far. He confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled our history and made the United States a model for the world. Taking a few swings at today's polit... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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From America's pre-eminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, 11 months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive D-Day and Citizen Soldiers, about which the great Civil War historian James McPherson wrote: 'If there is a better book about the experienc... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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