Description
'If there is a better book about the experience of GIs who fought in Europe during World War II, I have not read it. CITIZEN SOLDIERS captures the fear and exhilaration of combat, the hunger and cold and filth of the foxholes, the small intense world of hte individual rifleman as well as the big picture of the European theater in a manner that grips the reader and will not let him go. No one who has not been there can understand what combat is like, but Stephen Ambrose brings us closer to an understanding than any other historian has done' James McPherson, author of BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
'Just about the most gripping account of the Second World War that I have ever read' Joseph Heller
'An unforgettable testament to the World War II generation' THE NEW YORK TIMES
'History boldly told and elegantly written ... Gripping' WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian ... spellbinding' PEOPLE
'Just about the most gripping account of the Second World War that I have ever read' Joseph Heller
'An unforgettable testament to the World War II generation' THE NEW YORK TIMES
'History boldly told and elegantly written ... Gripping' WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Ambrose proves once again he is a masterful historian ... spellbinding' PEOPLE
Présentation de l'éditeur
This sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the liberation of Paris, the attempt to leap the Rhine in operation Market-Garden, the near-miraculous German recovery, the battles around Metz and in the Huertgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the capture of the bridge at Remagen and, finally, the overunning of Germany.
From the enlisted men and junior officers, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from those on both sides of the war. The experience of these citizen soldiers reveals the ordinary sufferings and hardships of war. They overcame their fear and inexperience, the mistakes of their high command and their enemy to win the war.
From the enlisted men and junior officers, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from those on both sides of the war. The experience of these citizen soldiers reveals the ordinary sufferings and hardships of war. They overcame their fear and inexperience, the mistakes of their high command and their enemy to win the war.
