Citizen Soldiers

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

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Paperback | 24 September 1998

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From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

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John Lehman The Wall Street Journal History boldly told and elegantly written....Gripping. Kyle Smith People Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian....Spellbinding....The book captures the bizarre contradictions, random kindness and unexpectedly comic moments of the push to Berlin as memorably as a great war novel. John Omicinski Detroit Free Press Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers is his best book ever, the culmination of a career largely spent immersed in the details of Ike's war. R. Z. Sheppard Time Citizen Soldiers [is] a high point in Ambrose's long fascination with the nature of leaders and followers.

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Maps
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Prologue
The Battle for France
Expanding the Beachhead,June 7-30, 1944
Hedgerow Fighting,July 1-24, 1944
Breakout and Encirclement,July 25-August 25, 1944
To the Siegfried Line,August 26-September 30, 1944
The Siegfried Line,October 1944
At the German Border
Metz and the Hurtgen Forest,November 1-December 15, 1944
The Ardennes,December 16-19, 1944
The Ardennes,December 20-23, 1944
The Holiday Season,December 24-31, 1944
Life in ETO
Night on the Line
Replacements and Reinforcements,Fall 1944
The Air War13 Medics, Nurses, and Doctors
Jerks, Sad Sacks, Profiteers, and Jim Crow
Prisoners of War
Overrunning Germany
Winter War,January 1945
Closing to the Rhine,February 1-March 6, 1945
Crossing the Rhine,March 7-31, 1945
Victory,April 1-May 7, 1945
Epilogue:The GIs and Modern America
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Citizen Soldiers

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

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