Stephen E. Ambrose - Americans at War.nfo
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Title: Americans at War
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Read By: Barrett Whitener
Copyright: 1977
Audiobook Copyright: 1977
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Books on Tape
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Source: 9 cd
Condition: good
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Book Description
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With its 15 essays (eight previously unpublished, the remaining published
in various journals over the course of 30 years), this is a precis of
a brilliant career. Reflecting such works as Crazy Horse and Custer,
D-Day, Undaunted Courage and Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945, these essays
show Ambrose as a wide-ranging writer and a historian who does his best
to understand the soldiers he studies, whether through thousands of
interviews or through a swim in the choppy June waters off Normandy.
After the first, longest and most strictly tactical piece on Vicksburg,
he moves more or less chronologically to the 21st century and the future
of war. He offers three profiles, not of the men he admires most, but
of three histrionic egotists--Custer, MacArthur and Patton--with complicated
personal and martial legacies. Ambrose doesn't shy away from the most
controversial subjects, but rather marshals fact and feeling in convincing
argument. Take ""The Atomic Bomb and Its Consequences,"" in which he
contends that the atomic bomb may have saved Japanese lives by allowing
the country's military leaders a face-saving way to get out of a war
long lost. Without the bomb and the surrender, Japan would have been
subjected to extensive conventional bombardment, and, Ambrose reminds
us, the March 1945 raid on Tokyo caused more casualties than did the
atomic bombs. His discussion of My Lai never gives the specifics of
the 1968 massacre. But in a long accounting of Meriwether Lewis's ongoing
minor skirmishes with Native Americans, Wounded Knee and other incidents,
he puts My Lai into a context of terror, anger and lost control. ""My
Lai,"" he says, ""was not an exception or an aberration. Atrocity is
a part of war that needs to be recognized and discussed."" (
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