The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
Autor Stephen E. Ambroseen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 1999
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780684856292
ISBN-10: 0684856298
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 3 16-page b &w inserts
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Touchstone.
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0684856298
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 3 16-page b &w inserts
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Touchstone.
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster
Notă biografică
Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.
Cuprins
Contents
Introduction
1 Preparation
2 Getting Started
3 Planning and Training for Overlord
4 "Ok, Let's Go"
5 The Opening Hours of D-Day
6 Utah Beach
7 Omaha Beach
8 Pointe-Du-Hoc
9 The British and Canadian Beaches
10 The End of the Day
11 Hedgerows
12 Breakout and Pursuit
13 At the German Border
14 Metz, Aachen, and the Hurtgen
15 The Battle of the Bulge
16 Night on the Line
17 The Rhineland Battles
18 Overrunning Germany
19 The GIs
Sources
Index
Maps
The Invasion of France, June 6-August 25, 1944
The Defeat of Germany, August 1944-May 1945
Recenzii
Nathaniel Tripp The New York Times Book Review Ambrose is a superb historian.
William R. Wineke Wisconsin State Journal The Victors is an absolutely wonderful book...a compelling narrative of a time when the average American youth exhibited heroism and grace to save the world.
Theo Lippman, Jr. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fresh and riveting.
Calvin L. Christman The Dallas Morning News A brief, readable, and necessary remembrance of a generation that met and overcome this century's greatest test.
John Gregory Dunne The New Yorker [Ambrose's] skill at weaving his interviews into a good read is impressive.
Harry Crumpacker St. Petersburg Times No historian writing today understands and empathizes with the World Ware II generation of Americans better than Stephen Ambrose...Reading this book will leave only a profound understanding of an undeniable truth.
William R. Wineke Wisconsin State Journal The Victors is an absolutely wonderful book...a compelling narrative of a time when the average American youth exhibited heroism and grace to save the world.
Theo Lippman, Jr. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fresh and riveting.
Calvin L. Christman The Dallas Morning News A brief, readable, and necessary remembrance of a generation that met and overcome this century's greatest test.
John Gregory Dunne The New Yorker [Ambrose's] skill at weaving his interviews into a good read is impressive.
Harry Crumpacker St. Petersburg Times No historian writing today understands and empathizes with the World Ware II generation of Americans better than Stephen Ambrose...Reading this book will leave only a profound understanding of an undeniable truth.
Descriere
The war in Europe, from D-Day to Berlin, by one of the most pre-eminent military historians. Ambrose's attention is, as always, on the ordinary men who fought, endured, and won.