Stephen E. Ambrose Complete Bookshelf
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As a college football player at the University of Wisconsin, Stephen E. Ambrose played both offensive (left guard) and defensive (middle linebacker) positions. As a writer, he has combined the twin disciplines of biography and history in numerous books about American leaders and military operations. His 1994 book, D-Day, about the invasion of Normandy, incorporated 1,400 interviews with detailed facts. The journals of Lewis and Clark helped inspire Undaunted Courage, Ambrose's bestseller about the exploration of the Louisiana Territory. Particularly enchanted by Lewis's vivid descriptions, Ambrose and his family decided to follow the explorers' trail for their annual camping trip in 1976, each night reading passages from Lewis and Clark's diaries.

Ambrose published his first book, a biography of Army General Henry Halleck, in 1962. Fewer than 1,000 copies were printed, but the book somehow managed to find its way into the hands of Dwight Eisenhower. The former president liked the book, and phoned Ambrose to tell him so. That call led to Ambrose becoming Eisenhower's official biographer, as well as the editor of his papers (some 15 volumes to date). Like his mentor Ike, Ambrose has encompassed military and political worlds in his writing career, writing about subjects from the history of West Point to Richard Nixon. Retired from a professorship at University of New Orleans, Ambrose divides his time between homes in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana.

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The Victors (1998)
Citizen Soldiers (1997)
Undaunted Courage (1996)
D-Day: June 6, 1944 (1994)
Band of Brothers (1992)
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990(1991)
Eisenhower; Soldier and President (1991)
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician (1989)
Nixon: The Education of a Politician (1987)
Pegasus Bridge (1984)
Soldier, General of the Army, President Elect, 1890-1952 (1983)
Milton S. Eisenhower: Educatonal Statesman (with Richard H. Immerman) (1983)
Ike's Spies (1981)
Crazy Horse and Custer (1975)
Ike: Abilene to Berlin (1973)
The Military and American Society (with James A. Barber, Jr.) (1972)
Rise to Globalism (1971)
Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 (1967)
Upton and the Army, (1964)
Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff (1962)
A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie, (Editor) (1961)

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