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Synopsis
The best-selling author of Band of Brothers presents a compelling study of male friendship from a personal and historical perspective, in a series of vignettes that explores different types of male comradeship, including Fathers and Sons, Faithful Friends, and Friendship for life.
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This tender book about male friendship will probably surprise those readers who know Stephen Ambrose best for his histories of World War II and biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in 1936, Ambrose acknowledges in the introduction to his memoir that men of his generation do not speak or write easily about their feelings. Yet male bonding is a strong theme in all of his work, as selections from previous writings on Lewis and Clark, Richard Nixon, Crazy Horse, and General Custer that are included in Comrades prove. What is more interesting, however, is the more personal material on Ambrose's two brothers (their youthful competitiveness mellowed into mature devotion), fellow historian Gordon Mueller ("my dearest and closest friend"), and several college buddies. After losing touch with each other during the harried years of career building and child rearing, these men rediscovered intimacy in middle age. Most moving of all is the closing chapter on Ambrose's father, an old-fashioned authority figure and disciplinarian quick to criticize his sons, but always available to sustain and guide them. The warming of that rather stern relationship is clearly one of the great joys of his son's adult life. It makes a fitting finale to a dignified but strikingly sweet memoir. --Wendy Smith
About the Author
Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of numerous books of history, including Citizen Soldiers, Undaunted Courage, and D-Day, as well as biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana.
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- PublisherAudioworks
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0671045792
- ISBN 13 9780671045791
- BindingAudio Cassette
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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals (2 audio cassettes)
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Cassette. Condition: as new. still in original unopened shrinkwrap; read by the author; running time ca. 3 hrs.; a celebration of male friendships. Cassette. Seller Inventory # 157044
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