Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002)

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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 visa mer 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) visa färre

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Ambrose, Stephen Edward
Födelsedag: 1936-01-10
Avled: 2002-10-13
Begravningsplats: Gardens of Memory Memorial Park, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, USA
Kön: male
Nationalitet: United States of America
Födelseort: Lovington, Illinois, USA
Dödsort: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA
Dödsorsak: lung cancer
Bostadsorter: Lovington, Illinois, USA
Decatur, Illinois, USA
Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
Newport, Rhode Island, USA (1969-1970)
Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (visa alla 10)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Montana, USA
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA
Utbildning: University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA|1957|PhD|1963)
Louisiana State University (MA|1958)
Yrken: professor (History)
historian
biographer
author
Relationer: Ambrose, Hugh (son)
Organisationer: University of New Orleans
Naval War College
Kansas State University
Louisiana State University
Johns Hopkins University
Priser och utmärkelser: Theodore Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Public Service (2002, awarded posthumously)
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (1998)
National Humanities Medal (1998)

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Band Of Brothers av Stephen E. Ambrose

The book rests upon interviews Ambrose conducted with former members of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. The veterans were having a reunion at a hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana; the interviews were conducted as part of a project to collect oral histories of D-Day for the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.[1]: 317 Ambrose was intrigued with the bonds that had developed among the members of Easy Company. He circulated his drafts among the surviving members of the company, asked for input, and incorporated their ideas into later drafts. Ambrose wrote of the finished product, "We have come as close to the true story of Easy Company as possible."[2]… (mer)

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