Americans at
War
Author: Stephen
Ambrose
Paperback
252 pages (October 1998) Berkley Pub Group
ISBN: 0425165108
Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 9.00 x 6.00

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
Struggle for Vicksburg: The Battles and Siege That Decided the
Civil War
Custer's Civil War
"Just Dumb Luck": American Entry into World War II
SIGINT: Deception and the Liberation of Western Europe
D-Day Revisited
Victory in Europe: May 1945
The Atomic Bomb and Its Consequences
General MacArthur: A Profile
A Fateful Friendship: Eisenhower and Patton
The War on the Home Front
My Lai: Atrocities in Historical Perspective
The Christmas Bombing
Eisenhower and NATO
The Cold War in Perspective
War in the Twenty-First Century
- Total pages : 252 pages

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Decription:
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.
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