![]() ![]() It was this focus on the experiences of the common soldier that led Steven Spielberg, the director of Saving Private Ryan, to turn to Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers (1997), Band of Brothers (1993), andĭ-Day (1994) in an effort to understand what the Second World War was Ambrose relies on thousands of oral histories and interviews, and he tells many of the soldiers' stories in their own words. Unlike most historians of that war, Ambrose concentrates on the lives of the men who actually fought - for example, those who landed at the beach in Normandy and spent weeks of the coldest winter in forty years living in foxholes. Passion has been writing about another triumph - the Second World War. For most of this decade, though, Ambrose's Has become a fixture on the best-seller lists, and has inspired a resurgence of Opening of the American West (1996) is a gripping account that History, chose to tell the story of Lewis and Clark's journey of discovery.Īmbrose's Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the May help explain why Ambrose, the author of twenty books, most of them military "Iīelieve this is the best and greatest country that ever was." This sentiment "I am an unabashed triumphalist," Stephen Ambrose has recently written. Stephen Ambrose talks about his new book, The Victors - a synthesis of his work on the Second World War ![]()
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