Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002)
Author of Undaunted Courage
About the Author
Historian Stephen E. Ambrose grew up in Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Louisiana. Ambrose is considered to be one of the foremost historical scholars of recent times and has been a professor for over three decades. He is also the founder and president of show more the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. His works include D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest and Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. Abrose served historical consultant on the motion picture Saving Private Ryan. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Stephen E. Ambrose
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (1992) — Author — 6,893 copies, 114 reviews
Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997) 3,706 copies, 38 reviews
Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000) 3,232 copies, 44 reviews
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 (2001) 2,050 copies, 30 reviews
The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2001) 1,001 copies, 5 reviews
Eisenhower, Volumes 1 & 2: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect 1890-1952 / The President 1952-1969 (1990) 714 copies, 13 reviews
Eisenhower, Volume 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 (1983) 283 copies, 5 reviews
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today (2002) 177 copies, 2 reviews
Stephen E. Ambrose Opening of the West e-Book Boxed Set : Undaunted Courage and Nothing Like It in the World (2013) 2 copies
Stephen E. Ambrose from d-Day to Victory e-Book Box Set : Band of Brothers, d-Day, Pegasus Bridge (2013) 2 copies
Bratrstvo neohrožených : rota E 506. pluku 101. vzdušné výsadkové divize : z Normandie až do Hitlerova Orlího… (2010) 2 copies
The wisdom of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Quotations from Ike's speeches & writings, 1939-1969 (1990) — Editor — 2 copies
Citizen Soldiers 1 copy
Library of the Presidents Collector's Edition, Easton Press (48 Volumes, Washington through Reagan) (1948) 1 copy
New History of World War II 1 copy
3 Minutes 1 copy
Americans At War 1 copy
French Girl 1 copy
Associated Works
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Contributor — 1,808 copies, 25 reviews
The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, 1953} (1953) — Foreword, some editions — 1,205 copies, 8 reviews
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contributor — 437 copies, 5 reviews
The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (1994) — Introduction; Afterword — 288 copies, 1 review
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter (1996) — Introduction, some editions — 139 copies, 2 reviews
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II (2002) — Foreword, some editions — 131 copies, 2 reviews
Character Above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bush (1996) — Contributor — 112 copies, 2 reviews
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (2001) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1989 (1989) — Author "The Secrets of Overlord" — 19 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1992 (1991) — Author "The Christmas Bombing" — 18 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1989 (1989) — Author "The Bulge" — 16 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "If D-Day had Failed" — 15 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1996 (1995) — Author "Incident at Two Medicine River" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1999 (1999) — Author "Night on the Line" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1993 (1992) — Author "D Day Revisited" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1998 (1997) — Author "The Last Barrier" — 11 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2001 (2001) — Author "Birth of the Fifteenth Air Force" — 8 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Legal name
- Ambrose, Stephen Edward
- Birthdate
- 1936-01-10
- Date of death
- 2002-10-13
- Burial location
- Gardens of Memory Memorial Park, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lovington, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Places of residence
- Lovington, Illinois, USA
Decatur, Illinois, USA
Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
Newport, Rhode Island, USA (1969-1970)
Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (show all 10)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Helena, Montana, USA
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA - Education
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA|1957|PhD|1963)
Louisiana State University (MA|1958) - Occupations
- professor (History)
historian
biographer
author - Relationships
- Ambrose, Hugh (son)
- Organizations
- University of New Orleans
Naval War College
Kansas State University
Louisiana State University
Johns Hopkins University - Awards and honors
- Theodore Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Public Service (2002, awarded posthumously)
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (1998)
National Humanities Medal (1998)
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Reviews
D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World… by Stephen E. Ambrose
Mom got me this book somewhere in Michigan City. Read this book during our camping trip from Newport to Fort Worth in the summer of 2024. Chose to read it then to prepare for writing a book review on a different DDay book. Pretty decent book full of first-hand accounts and small stories of that long day. Parts of it got boring and a little repetitive. Ambrose did a decent job dumbing it down, but b/c of the massive scale of that day, it got pretty confusing at times which Allied units he was talking about and what French town was which. Recommended for people who enjoy studying D-Day. Probably not necessary to read cover to cover.… (more)
Excellent account of Native American life in the late Columbian Era.
Having read several books about the 'Mighty Eight' Army Air Force, this was a great account of the 15th AAF with an extensive review of the B-24s mission and flight history.
This book is a gripping account of the men who were in the D-Day invasion. It is not a dry or difficult read, instead l found it to be a riveting book as easy to read as any of my favorite fictional books.
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Statistics
- Works
- 66
- Also by
- 30
- Members
- 39,483
- Popularity
- #451
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 485
- ISBNs
- 454
- Languages
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- Favorited
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