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However, more importantly, Ambrose is able to infuse these statistics with a human element that enables readers to personally identify with the events being described. His painstakingly researched
1997 book, Citizen Soldiers, is a dramatic departure from other historical texts. While it is an exploration of the American GI experiences beginning first in Normandy on June 7,
1944 (the day after D-Day) and concludes with the surrender of Germany on May 7, 1945, it is more than a rehashing of famous battles as recalled from prominent generals,
military strategists or political leaders. It paints an often grim and ugly picture of war as it is really fought, stripped of all the heroic illusions celebrated by authors
dating back to Homer. These were warriors who died more often as the result of trench foot than by bullet wounds. Citizen Soldiers is an unflinching and up-close
glimpse of combat told not by those on the sidelines or by members of an elite hierarchy. It is a compilation of stories that could only be authentically described
by the men who actually lived them - those who hid side by side in foxholes and trenches, who crawled on their bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences.
Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as it is often fought, with thoughts of humanity occasionally taking a backseat to
making "the kill." Citizen Soldiers is a thoroughly readable book of living history, subdivided into four parts that considers the chronological progress of the Allies military campaigns in France and
Germany. Every page is brought to life by the vivid recollections of what it was like to dig trenches while ducking enemy gunfire. All of the people who
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