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ⓘ About Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose was one of the popular biographer and historian of America, who has written many popular manuscripts in his writing career. He is particularly famous for writing down the biographies of the former United States Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. Before taking up writing as a career, author Ambrose used to work as a longtime history professor at the New Orleans University. His written works also include a number of bestselling novels based on the popular history of America. Ambrose was born on January 10, 1936 in Lovington, Illinois and died on October 13, 2002, in Bate St. Louis, Mississippi, United States. Some of the most famous works of author Ambrose include the Band of Brothers series, which was also adapted into a television series in the year 2001.
All Book Series by Stephen E. Ambrose
Andrew Jackson and the Bank War
Book 2 of 4 · published 1967 Anthology · Robert V. Remini
The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s
Book 3 of 4 · published 1968 Anthology · Robert Sobel
A History of the ICC
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 1976 Anthology · Ari Hoogenboom
This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Single-title series · published 2003
The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Book 5 of 28 · published 1970
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
Book 6 of 28 · published 1971
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Book 8 of 28 · published 1975
Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
Book 9 of 28 · published 1981
Milton S. Eisenhower: Educational Statesman
Book 10 of 28 · published 1983 Co-authored · Richard H. Immerman
Pegasus Bridge: D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid
Book 11 of 28 · published 1984
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Book 13 of 28 · published 1992
D-Day: June 6, 1944, The Climactic Battle of World War II
Book 14 of 28 · published 1994
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Book 15 of 28 · published 1996
Citizen Soldiers: From the Normandy Beaches to the Surrender of Germany
Book 18 of 28 · published 1997
The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of WWII
Book 19 of 28 · published 1998
Witness to America
Book 23 of 28 · published 1999 Co-authored · Douglas Brinkley
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
Book 24 of 28 · published 2000
The Wild Blue: The Men And Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany, 1944-45
Book 25 of 28 · published 2001
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
Book 27 of 28 · published 2002
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2002 Co-authored · Douglas Brinkley
Voices of D-Day
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 1994 Anthology · Ronald J. Drez
Architects of Intervention
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 1999 Anthology · Zachary Karabell
What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Book 3 of 7 · published 1999
What if? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Book 4 of 7 · published 2000
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Stephen E. Ambrose?
Stephen E. Ambrose was one of the popular biographer and historian of America, who has written many popular manuscripts in his writing career. He is particularly famous for writing down the biographies of the former United States Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. Before taking up writing as a career, author Ambrose used to work as a longtime history professor at the New Orleans University.
Which Stephen E. Ambrose series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Norton Essays in American History series, the earliest of Stephen E. Ambrose's multi-book series: it opens with Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 (1967) and runs to 4 books across 1967–1976, ending with A History of the ICC (1976). Stephen E. Ambrose's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Stephen E. Ambrose written?
Stephen E. Ambrose has 48 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1962 and 2005. 12 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Norton Essays in American History series with 4 books — and 36 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Stephen E. Ambrose's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Stephen E. Ambrose's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Norton Essays in American History (1967–1976, 4 books), Eisenhower (1983–1984, 2 books) and Nixon (1987–1991, 3 books), plus 1 more.
How are Stephen E. Ambrose's books organised into series?
This guide splits Stephen E. Ambrose's 48 books into 4 named series and 36 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Norton Essays in American History (4 books, 1967–1976); Nixon (3 books, 1987–1991); Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace (3 books, 1994–1999); Eisenhower (2 books, 1983–1984).