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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-May 7, 1945

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In this account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

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In this account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

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"A Touchstone book."
Includes maps of: Expanding the Normandy Beachhead, July 1-24, 1944; Exploitation, August 14-25, 1944; Pursuit to the Siegfried Line, August 26-September 14, 1944; Battle of Attrition, September 16-December 15, 1944; Ardennes Campaign, December 26, 1944-January 16, 1945; Ardennes Campaign, January 17-February 7, 1945; Battle of the Rhineland, February 8-March 28, 1945; Drive to the Elbe, April 4-May 7, 1945.
"With a new afterword for the paperback edition"--cover.

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pt. 1.  The battle for France. Expanding the beachhead, June 7-30, 1944 -- Hedgerow fighting, July 1-24, 1944 -- Breakout and encirclement, July 25-August 25, 1944 -- To the Siegfried line, August 26-September 30, 1944 -- The Siegfried line, October 1944 -- pt. 2. At the German border. Metz and the Hurtgen Forest, November 1-December 15, 1944 -- The Ardennes, December 16-19, 1944 -- The Ardennes, December 20-23, 1944 -- The holiday season, December 24-31, 1944 -- pt. 3. Life in ETO. Night on the line -- Replacements and reinforcements, Fall 1944 -- The air war -- Medics, nurses, and doctors -- Jerks, sad sacks, profiteers, and Jim Crow -- Prisoners of war -- pt. 4. Overrunning Germany. Winter war, January 1945 -- Closing to the Rhine, February 1-March 6, 1945 -- Crossing the Rhine, March 7-31, 1945 -- Victory, April 1-May 7, 1945 -- Epilogue : The GIs and modern America.