The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II ebook

The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive "D-Day" and "Citizen Soldiers", about which the great Civil War historian James McPherson wrote, "If there is a better book about the experience of GIs who fought in Europe during World War II, I have not read it. "Citizen Soldiers" captures the fear and exhilaration of combat, the hunger and cold and filth of the foxholes, the small intense world of the individual rifleman as well as the big picture of the European theater in a manner that grips the reader and will not let him go. No one who has not been there can understand what combat is like but Stephen Ambrose brings us closer to an understanding than any other historian has done." "The Victors" also includes stories of individual battles, raids, acts of courage and suffering from Pegasus Bridge, an account of the first engagement of D-Day, when a detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion; and from Band of Brothers, an account of an American rifle company from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment who fought, died, and conquered, from Utah Beach through the Bulge and on to Hitter's Eagle's Nest in Germany.

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Title of ebook: The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
ISBN: 9780684864549
parent-ISBN: 9780684856285
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 396
Published: 12-2000
Released online for download: 12-01-2000
Author of eBook: Ambrose, Stephen E.

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Contents

Introduction........................................................11 1 PREPARATION......................................................15 2 GETTING STARTED..................................................35 3 PLANNING AND TRAINING FOR OVERLORD...............................51 4 "OK, LET'S GO"...................................................69 5 THE OPENING HOURS OF D-DAY.......................................86 6 UTAH BEACH......................................................105 7 OMAHA BEACH.....................................................117 8 POINTE-DU-HOC...................................................143 9 THE BRITISH AND CANADIAN BEACHES................................158 10 THE END OF THE DAY.............................................181 11 HEDGEROWS......................................................188 12 BREAKOUT AND PURSUIT...........................................220 13 AT THE GERMAN BORDER...........................................237 14 METZ, AACHEN, AND THE HURTGEN..................................249 15 THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE........................................272 16 NIGHT ON THE LINE.................... ... read full excerpt from: The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II ebook

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