Americans at War - Couverture rigide

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1578060265 ISBN 13 : 9781578060269

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Ambrose Stephen E

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Stephen E. Ambrose is Director Emeritus of the Eisenhower Center, retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans, and president of the National D-Day Museum. He is the author of over twenty books including the bestsellers Undaunted Courage, Citizen Soldiers, and D-Day, multiple biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and his compilation of 1,400 oral histories from American veterans.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1578060265
• ISBN 13: 9781578060269
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277