Brief Summary Of The Book 'The Victors' By Stephen E. Ambrose
I. Description of the Book
The Victors serves as a fast-reading and gripping survey of what life was like in the World War II. The book covers the period from D-Day in June 6, 1944 until the final surrender of Germany in May 7, 1945. It is essentially several books spliced together to give an overall picture of the war in Europe -- largely composed of huge blocks of text from five of the author, Stephen E. Ambrose's previous histories: Eisenhower, Pegasus Bridge, Band of Brothers, D-Day and Citizen Soldiers.
The Victors includes authoritative narrative account of individual battles, raids, acts of courage and suffering from Pegasus Bridge, an account of the first engagement of D-Day, when a detachment of British airborne troops stormed the …show more content…
Ambrose is a phenomenal popularizer of history. He established himself as both major biographer of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon and a definitive chronicler of America’s combat soldiers in the D-Day campaign of 1944-1945. Ambrose authored more than 30 books with most of them are on military history and focused on the stories of ordinary soldiers.
When Ambrose was asked in an interview with Atlantic magazine on what drew him to become a military historian even though he had never fought in a war himself, he quoted replying, “I decided early on that I wanted to be a historian, and then I very quickly figured out that war is where the action is, and even more specifically, that the action’s on the battlefield, where who wins determines the kind of world we’re going to live in. I thought, I want to go to the heart of the matter.”
Moreover, Ambrose explained his specific interest in World War II drew from believing that returning veterans were giants who had saved the world from barbarism. Over the decades, he interviewed thousands of veterans as he felt privileged to hear and write their stories.
III. Reviewer's Appraisal
Hundreds of first-hand accounts of what happened during the World War II were compressed in the book. The Victors painted the series of events as authentic, genuine, gritty and certainly strips off any illusions of glamour that there may be about
The Victors serves as a fast-reading and gripping survey of what life was like in the World War II. The book covers the period from D-Day in June 6, 1944 until the final surrender of Germany in May 7, 1945. It is essentially several books spliced together to give an overall picture of the war in Europe -- largely composed of huge blocks of text from five of the author, Stephen E. Ambrose's previous histories: Eisenhower, Pegasus Bridge, Band of Brothers, D-Day and Citizen Soldiers.
The Victors includes authoritative narrative account of individual battles, raids, acts of courage and suffering from Pegasus Bridge, an account of the first engagement of D-Day, when a detachment of British airborne troops stormed the …show more content…
Ambrose is a phenomenal popularizer of history. He established himself as both major biographer of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon and a definitive chronicler of America’s combat soldiers in the D-Day campaign of 1944-1945. Ambrose authored more than 30 books with most of them are on military history and focused on the stories of ordinary soldiers.
When Ambrose was asked in an interview with Atlantic magazine on what drew him to become a military historian even though he had never fought in a war himself, he quoted replying, “I decided early on that I wanted to be a historian, and then I very quickly figured out that war is where the action is, and even more specifically, that the action’s on the battlefield, where who wins determines the kind of world we’re going to live in. I thought, I want to go to the heart of the matter.”
Moreover, Ambrose explained his specific interest in World War II drew from believing that returning veterans were giants who had saved the world from barbarism. Over the decades, he interviewed thousands of veterans as he felt privileged to hear and write their stories.
III. Reviewer's Appraisal
Hundreds of first-hand accounts of what happened during the World War II were compressed in the book. The Victors painted the series of events as authentic, genuine, gritty and certainly strips off any illusions of glamour that there may be about