Cohen Ambrose (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Marc J. Cohen, jacket design (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards with gilt lettering. llustrated with many black & white photographs and maps. Solid binding, square, clean and unmarked. FIne dustjacket is price-intact ($28) with no chips, tears or other defects. Protected in a clear mylar cover. ".a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944 to the end eleven months later, on May 7, 1945." Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Theatre Symposium Series; 9 X 6 X 0.50 inches; 144 pages.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Toning, foxing and edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fowler, Edith (book design); Cohen, Marc J. (jacket design); U.S. Army/National Archives (jacket photograph); Olivo, Darlene H. (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition black boards, black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Stephen E. Ambrose; Author Dedication; Introduction; Sources and Index. Illustrated with three sections of black-and-white photographic plates plus a section of maps. "From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative accont is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive D-Day and from Citizen Soldiers, about which the great Civil War historian James McPherson wrote: "If there is a better book about the experience of GIs who foungt in Europe during World War II, I have not read it. Citizen Soldiers captures the fear and exhilaration of combat, the hunger and cold and filth of the foxholes, the small, intense world of the individual rifleman as well as the big picture of the European theater in a manner that grips the reader and will not let him go. No one who has not been there can understand what combat is like but Stephen Ambrose brings us closer to an understanding than any other historian has done." The Victors also includes stories 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 German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion; and from Band of Brothers, an account of an American rifle company from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment who fought, died, and conquered, from Utah Beach through the Bulge and on to Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Germany. Stephen Ambrose is also the author of Eisenhower, the greatest work on Dwight Eisenhower, and one of the editors of the Supreme Allied Commander's papers. He describes the momentous decisions about how and where the war was fought, and the strategies and conduct of the generals and officers who led the invasion and the bloody drive across Europe to Berlin. But it is, as always with Stephen Ambrose, the ranks, the ordinary boys and men, who command his attention and his awe. The Victors tells their stories, how citizens became soldiers in the best army in the world. Ambrose draws on thousands of interviews and oral histories from government and private archives, from the high command - Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton - on down through officers and enlisted men, to re-create the last year of the Second World War, when the Allied soldiers pushed the Germans out of France, chased them across Germany, and destroyed the Nazi regime." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 121 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New.