The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II -- Stephen E. Ambr

<b>From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945.</b> <p/>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 <i>D-Day</i> and <i>Citizen Soldiers, </i> 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. <i>Citizen Soldiers</i> 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." <p/><i>The Victors</i> also includes stories of individual battles, raids, acts of courage and suffering from <i>Pegasus Bridge, </i> 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 <i>Band of Brothers, </i> an account of an American rifle company from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment who fought, died, and conquered, from Uta