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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S.Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany. June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 (Paperback)

by Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; New edition edition (3 Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0684848015
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684848013
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,023,642 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Kyle SmithPeopleAmbrose proves once again he is a masterful historian....Spellbinding....The book captures the bizarre contradictions, random kindness and unexpectedly comic moments of the push to Berlin as memorably as a great war novel.


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Originally published in 1998 by Simon and Schuster, this book starts at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945, covering the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge and more, ending with the overrunning of Germany.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must Read" for anyone with any interest in mil. history, 7 Mar 1998
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This review is from: Citizen Soldiers: U.S.Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge, to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 (Hardcover)
While standing in line for a book-signing at a local book store, I picked up "Citizen Soldiers" to quickly flip through. I was immediately pulled into the book and couldn't put it down. Ambrose's writing style made me live the dread, horror and aching cold the front-line infantry went through, particularly through the Winter of 1944-1945. My father was a medic in the 87th Division of Patton's Third Army and was actively involved in the Battle of the Bulge. He rarely spoke of his experiences during the war and now I guess I understand why. I believe he had experienced enough and didn't really care to relive a very difficult time. However, Dr. Ambrose masterfully conveys not only the trauma of battle, but also the strength of the human spirit. This book has compelled me to investigate other literature about World War II, particularly those works that tell the story from the people on the front line.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping and moving view from the foxholes., 25 Dec 1997
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This review is from: Citizen Soldiers: U.S.Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge, to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 (Hardcover)
As a Brit, my view of WW2 is influenced by Chester Wilmot's 'The Struggle for Europe' which is very supportive of Montgomery and rather questioning of Eisenhower, Bradley and (especially) Patton. Ambrose's new book combines a resolute defence of Patton's style with a heart-rending picture of front-line life, and death. A typical US division lost its infantry strength twice over within the 11 month campaigning season before victory. It lost its junior officer and NCO stregnth thrice over. Many of these casualties were incurred during the pointless grinding attacks on the German border and after Ardennes offensive. Herein lies the greatest irony of the book, the generals Ambrose idolises are the same men who caused such unnecessary suffering through their own ignorance (few officers over Captain ever visited the US army front-lines, contrast this with Monty and Horrocks' style of personal leadership). In the end the true heros are the GIs who did their duty in their thousands despite unimaginable conditions of physical and mental hardship. They proved that soldiers of democracies fighting in a just cause can meet and beat any army in the world. I shall ask my son to read this book when he is older, to understand what our parents and grandparents lived through, or gave, to keep our countries free.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Historical innacuracies and inconsistencies marr the book, 30 May 1998
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This review is from: Citizen Soldiers: U.S.Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge, to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 (Hardcover)
Although the author uses verbatim testimony from veterans, their comments, while sometimes powerful, are lost in the text and appear too frequently as random quotations for which the context is unclear.

Historical innacuracies and/or poor use of English marr this otherwise important book. For example the author twice refers to ME 163s as single-engine jets; "By this stage, the Germans had hundreds of single-engine jets (Messerschmitt 163)..." The ME 163 was not. It was in fact a highly dangerous single-engined liquid-fueled ROCKET propelled fighter with about 3 minutes of fuel - enough to get it to bomber altitude, steer (glide) at high speed to its target(s) and then glide (also at high speed) back to a landing area. Also the author's reference to the British "Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry" armored regiment is innacurate - they were the Sherwood Forresters Yeomanry.

The benchmark for great historical writing is Lyn MacDonald and unfortunatley this book falls short.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Drive on Germany Seen from a Cold, Miserable Foxhole
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