Citizen Soldiers
The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

I've been thinking a lot about story structure lately. How many wonderful stories (books or movies) have a structure something like this: Hero reluctantly gets involved in a struggle. Hero faces setbacks, makes mistakes, takes a few steps forward and then a few steps back. Hero learns, grows, and ch......more

Spectacular! “Citizen soldiers“ by Stephen E Ambrose is an amazing book. For those of us who are history buffs this is a treasure of information detail to the smallest Degree about post DDay war in Europe. The beauty of the book is that none of it does Ambrose tell the story from his amazing research......more

Ambrose ott folytatja, ahol a D-nap című könyvében abbahagyta: a szövetségesek partra szállnak Normandiában, aztán uccu neki, irány Berlin. Ha ez ilyen egyszerű volna! Akkor talán nem is lenne ez a könyv. Különben a szerző – úgy fest – megszívlelte az előző művel kapcsolatos kifogásaimat: amíg ott sz......more

Ambrose, an incredibly prolific and readable historian, focuses in this book on the soldiers who made up the ETO (European Theater of Operations). It’s at first somewhat difficult to categorize. His analysis of the men who made up the army could almost be called cheer-leading of the most nauseating......more

A history of the U.S. Army in World war II, specifically the European Theater, from D-Day to VE-Day. Very readable, with lots of awe-inspiring anecdotal reminisces from both American and German infantry and pilots; it’s also clear and informative on the types and abilities of weaponry both sides uti......more