Product Details
Simon & Schuster Audio, November 1997
eAudio
ISBN-10: 0743542827
ISBN-13: 9780743542821
Description
Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends on May 7, 1945. From the high command on down to the enlisted men, Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides who were there. He recreates the experiences of the individuals who fought the battles, the women who served, and the Germans who fought against us.
Ambrose reveals the learning process of a great army -- how to cross rivers, how to fight in snow or hedgerows, how to fight in cities, how to coordinate air and ground campaigns, how to fight in winter and on the defensive, how citizens become soldiers in the best army in the world.
A masterful biography of the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations, Citizen Soldiers provides a compelling account of the extraordinary stories of ordinary men in their fight for democracy.
Hear an Excerpt from the Audiobook
Joseph HellerCitizen Soldiers is just about the most gripping account of the Second World War that I have ever read. It is written with the art of a novelist, the clarity and immediacy of a journalist, and the meticulous intelligence of a sensible historian. I cannot imagine a motion picture that would be more thrilling than the individual vivid accounts of combat activity in Europe from the Normandy landings in June until the final surrender the following May.
Ken BurnsWhat a wonderful book, an emotionally powerful argument for our wonderful, flawed system and its homegrown heroics. I imagine Ambrose's writing room as supreme HQ where he is standing over a huge map of Europe, barking orders, dispatching terrified subordinates, surveying and understanding a vast, tragic human canvas at a glance. Ambrose's arsenal is imposing and effective; his pen is a machine gun: detached, hot, and devastating.
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