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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 2 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon, 1992
Best book ever?
Well this one doesnt need a review. You seen the dvds, now get the book:)
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)26 reviews
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Mariner Books, 1997
Fascinating Story, Can't Stop Talking, Use Google Earth!
I read books in a wide variety of topics. I decided to read about Lewis and Clark because I felt I just did not know enough about it and I felt that I should. When I received the book, I opened it and was fearful that I made a mistake because it was made up of journal entries, day by day in Lewis and Clark's own words. I started reading and I found myself immmediately engrossed in the story. I ...
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Striking Back: A Jewish Commando's War Against the Nazis3 reviews
Peter Masters
Presidio Press, 1997
A Hidden Masterpiece about Ignored Heroes
I have read this book about seven or eight times. When I finally met the author, Peter Masters, he asked in his usual humble style, "Why?" Here are my answers. It tells a largely ignored story in a literate, humane, and humble way. It tells how people who were victimized in outrageous ways were able to strike back and help defeat their oppressors. It also tells a story of which I (and all of ...
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China Marine2 reviews
E.B. Sledge
University Alabama Press, 2002
Hemingway would like this book
E. B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed" is by common consent one of the finest -- if not the finest -- account of the life of a combat infantryman in World War II. At Pelieu and Okinawa, Sledge was one of only 10 men in his Marine company of 240 to escape being wounded or killed. "China Marine" is the follow-up to "With the Old Breed," a lesser work but one that tells of what happened to Sledge after ...
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The Best of Stephen Ambrose2 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster Academic
Dr. Ambrose in His Element
I came to order "Best of" as a Christmas present after ordering the set for myself, only to find it out of stock. So since I'm here, I'll throw my nickel in. Let me say from the start that I may be somewhat biased since I was a student of Dr. Ambrose at the University of New Orleans. He was far and away the most captivating instructor I had during my time there as a politcal science/history ...
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Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-19907 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
Touchstone Books, 1992
best book ever
it was the best book ever my bum is on the swedish! my bum is on the book hehe
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One of Freedom's Finest Hours1 review
Douglas A. Jeffrey, Joseph H. Alexander, ...
Hillsdale College Press, 2002
the greatest generation
If you are in awe of what this generation did for all of us, read this book. It is based on a conference on WWII at Hillsdale College moderated by Stephen Ambrose. While it was in session, September 11 occurred. Talk about a coincidence! You will enjoy the various presentations from the conference. You won't be sorry.
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Up Front37 reviews
Bill Mauldin
W. W. Norton, 2000
In Memory of Our Fallen and Our Gold Star Mothers
It's a gift, the ability to draw, to have perspective, to create, to be able to portray human misery as humor, for a reader to see the image and words and turn to laughter. Bill Mauldin had this gift that gained prominence in a time of war where talents rise to their greatest heights or sink to their lowest depths.
Truth is portrayed in humor or the humor isn't funny. Sergeant Bill Mauldin, an ...
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German Boy: A Refugee?s Story (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)61 reviews
Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
University Press of Mississippi, 2000
WQonderful first hand account
Wonderful and descriptive first hand account of living through WWII in Germany and the life there afterwards.
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Walls of Light: The Murals of Walter Anderson2 reviews
Anne R. King
University Press of Mississippi, 1999
Anderson the Muralist
Walter Inglis Anderson was that rarest of humans, a true visionary, so much so that the word "vision" weakly captures the fiery luminescence of his drawings, watercolors, and paintings. The works photographed and discussed in this book are perfect examples. Largely unheralded in his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1965, Anderson's work deserves more caring and careful studies ...
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich 52 reviews
David Kenyon Webster, Stephen E. Ambrose
Louisiana State University Press, 1994
Best Band of Brothers Autobiography
This book is the best autobiography written by a member of the "Band of Brothers." If you have seen the mini-series, then you are undoubtedly familiar with David Kenyon Webster, the Harvard English-lit major who could have probably been an officer or at minimum, a clerk but who chose to join the Paratroopers so he could fight the war first hand and write about it.
What is great about this ...
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CITIZEN SOLDIERS : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June ...270 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster, 1997
good narrative
I enjoyed this book. I felt it was repeating alittle,but that would be the nature of this type of book. It read well, and left me in awe several time. I enjoyed the immense amount of details.My grandfather landed at Normandy on D-Day + 2. I read that part and felt a deep connection, like I knew more now, and maybe understood my grandfather a little more.
Ambrose has his critics, but any ...
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance73 reviews
David Howarth
The Lyons Press, 1999
An amazing story.
I first read this book when I was about eleven, over thirty years later I bought it again, and the story was just as amazing to me as an adult as it was when I was a child. Jan's story has to be read to believed.
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Eisenhower Soldier and President36 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
American Political Biography Press, 2007
A great work
Informative and easy to read.
He looks at the subject from many angles and delivers a complete picture of the realities in IKE's world. I personally learned a lot not only about Eisenhower but about WWII, about the times at which he served and about the Cold War. A great book.
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Pegasus Bridge46 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
Books On Tape, 1985
Hold Until Relieved!
The late Steven Ambrose made his mark as an historian by bringing the citizen soldiers of the mid-20th century United States to the forefront of American consciousness. With Pegasus Bridge he does justice to our British allies, relating the absolutely critical roles played by British paratroops and glider infantry in securing the eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead; a feat comparable, but ...
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Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy69 reviews
Donald R. Burgett
Dell, 2000
A Butcher mit big pockets tells his story!
Note: This review is for the hardback 1999 edition.
I first read this under the title of As Eagles Scream back in 1977. Having completed a re-reading of it (actually have done it several other times) I wanted to put my review down for others.
Currahee! Is Mr. Burgett's account as a paratrooper from induction thru Normandy serving in A Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. ...
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Undaunted Courage1 review
Stephen E. AMBROSE
see notes for publisher info, 1996
A fantastic story
I didn't know that much about Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery before reading this book. WOW!
Ambrose loved his topic and related it in such a way as to make you feel that you were there.
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Undaunted Courage347 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose, Meriwether Lewis, ...
Topeka Bindery, 1999
A gift to all generations of Americans who follow
With so many reviews sometimes I hesitate to add one more. This is a gift, a treasure to all Americans who come after us. All good stories do not necessarily have the benefit of good story tellers and vice versa. I believe this is THE reason this book is so powerful. L&C is a tale of the stars aligning at exactly the right moment with precisely the right cast there to undertake the adventure. ...
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Band Of Brothers424 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2001
Real American Heroes
Band of Brothers is the kind of stories I used to hear from my father and uncles of their experiences in World War Two. Stephen Ambrose has a particular talent for making the reader feel all the emotions these very brave men went through. I read the book before I saw the HBO mini-series, and I bought the autdo book for when I am traveling. I never want to forget, and I hope the country never ...
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Wisconsin Boy In Dixie: Civil War Letters Of James K Newton (North Coast Books)1 review
Stephen E. Ambrose
University of Wisconsin Press, 1995
From Wisconsin to Vicksburg!
It is difficult to rate a book by 5 Stars or less when it is someone's diary. The book covers Newton's journey from enlistment in 1861 to final discharge in 1865. It is a rather quick read of his letters sent home although it covers the monthly grind of soldiering in the 14th Wisconsin. Newton skips many descriptions of horrific content in his letters home that was common back then and manages ...
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