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Citizen Soldiers
Citizen Soldiers
The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945  
By Stephen E. Ambrose
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

Maps
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Prologue

PART ONE
The Battle for France

1 Expanding the Beachhead,
June 7-30, 1944
2 Hedgerow Fighting,
July 1-24, 1944
3 Breakout and Encirclement,
July 25-August 25, 1944
4 To the Siegfried Line,
August 26-September 30, 1944
5 The Siegfried Line,
October 1944

PART TWO
At the German Border

6 Metz and the Hurtgen Forest,
November 1-December 15, 1944
7 The Ardennes,
December 16-19, 1944
8 The Ardennes,
December 20-23, 1944
9 The Holiday Season,
December 24-31, 1944

PART THREE
Life in ETO

10 Night on the Line
11 Replacements and Reinforcements,
Fall 1944
12 The Air War
13 Medics, Nurses, and Doctors
14 Jerks, Sad Sacks, Profiteers, and Jim Crow
15 Prisoners of War

PART FOUR
Overrunning Germany

16 Winter War,
January 1945
17 Closing to the Rhine,
February 1-March 6, 1945
18 Crossing the Rhine,
March 7-31, 1945
19 Victory,
April 1-May 7, 1945

Epilogue: The GIs and Modern America
Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Index