Stephen E. Ambrose

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Stephen Ambrose (Jim Wallace, 2001)

Stephen Edward Ambrose (born January 10, 1936 in Decatur , Illinois , † October 13, 2002 in Bay St. Louis , Mississippi ) was an American historian and biographer of the US Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon .

He was the son of a doctor in Whitewater and grew up in Wisconsin . He wrote several war books ( D-Day , Citizen Soldiers and The Victors ) and was a history professor at various colleges and universities. He also wrote scripts for several historical documentaries ( Band of Brothers , The World at War ). In 1989/90 he held the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army Military History Institute .

Ambrose came into sharp criticism in 2002 when it became known that he had copied passages by other authors in many of his works and issued them as his own work ( plagiarism ). Ambrose - he died of lung cancer in October 2002 - was unable to restore his reputation as a serious scientist. He promised the authors revisions of his works; this did not happen before his death.

In 1998 he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize .

Stephen Ambrose was buried in Bay St. Louis.

Fonts (selection)

(chronologically)

  • Halleck. Lincoln's Chief of Staff. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge LA 1962.
  • Upton and the Army. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge LA 1964.
  • Duty, Honor, Country. A History of West Point. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 1966.
  • Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945. The Decision to Halt at the Elbe. Norton, New York, NY 1967.
  • The Supreme Commander. The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Doubleday, Garden City NY 1970.
  • Crazy Horse and Custer. The Parallel Lives of two American Warriors. Doubleday, Garden City NY 1975, ISBN 0-385-09666-6 .
  • Ike's Spies. Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment. Doubleday, Garden City NY 1981, ISBN 0-385-14493-8 .
  • Eisenhower. 2 volumes. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1983-1984;
  • Pegasus Bridge. June 6, 1944. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 1985, ISBN 0-671-52374-0 .
  • Nixon. 3 volumes. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1987-1991;
  • Band of Brothers. E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne. From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-671-76922-7 .
  • D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Climactic Battle of World War II. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 1994, ISBN 0-671-88403-4 .
  • Undaunted courage. Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 1996, ISBN 0-684-81107-3 .
  • Citizen Soldiers. The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 1997, ISBN 0-684-81525-7 .
  • Americans at War. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS 1997, ISBN 1-57806-026-5 .
  • The Victors. Eisenhower and his boys. The Men of World War II. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 1998, ISBN 0-684-85628-X .
  • Comrades. Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 1999, ISBN 0-684-86718-4 .
  • Nothing Like it in the World. The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. 1863-1869. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 2000, ISBN 0-684-84609-8 .
  • The Wild Blue. The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 2001, ISBN 0-7432-0339-9 .
  • To America. Personal Reflections of an Historian. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 2002, ISBN 0-7432-0275-9 .
  • This vast land. A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. A novel. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-689-86448-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ambrose, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ambrose, Stephen Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Decatur , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2002
Place of death Bay St. Louis , Mississippi