Stephen E. Ambrose "Citizen Soldiers", "Band Of Brothers", "D-Day" Signed Limited Edition 3-Volume Matching Set [Sealed]

Personally signed by Stephen E. Ambrose (3x),  who was significant as a best-selling historian who popularized American history, especially World War II and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, through engaging storytelling and his connection to the film Saving Private Ryan.

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. (1995, 1997, 2002) . Stephen E. Ambrose. "D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Climactic Battle of World War II", "Citizen Soldiers: The US. Army from The Normandy Beaches to The Bulge to the Surrender of Germany", "Band of Brothers" Signed Limited Edition three volume matching set. Includes original Certificate of Authenticity and publisher's notes. Luxuriously bound in navy blue full genuine leather with 22kt gold accents and gilded page edges. Very Fine, sealed without any flaws.

Three volume set in one shipment:

1. "Citizen Soldiers" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
2. "Band of Brothers" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
3. "D-Day: June 6, 1944" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]

Stephen E. Ambrose was a key figure in making history accessible to the public, served as a historical consultant for films and PBS, co-founded the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, and received the National Humanities Medal for his contributions to history and public understanding of the past.

Popularizing American History

Storytelling Approach: Ambrose wrote in a narrative style that made history engaging for the public, unlike the "stuffy" academic style, leading to his books becoming bestsellers.

Focus on Ordinary Americans: His books, particularly Citizen Soldiers, brought the experiences of the average American soldier in World War II to the forefront, emphasizing courage and patriotism.

Wide Reach: His works, including Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, reached a broad audience, making him one of the most widely read historians in American history.

Impact on Popular Culture

Film and Television: He was a historical consultant for Steven Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan and for the PBS program Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. The HBO miniseries Band of Brothers was also based on his book.

Educational Tours: He founded Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours, which continues his legacy of leading historical excursions through battlefields and other historical sites.

Founding the National D-Day Museum

Oral History Collection: As a professor at the University of New Orleans, Ambrose co-founded the Eisenhower Center, which archived oral histories from World War II veterans.

Public Awareness: His work with veterans and his research directly led to his collaboration with Dr. Nick Mueller to establish the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, which opened in 2000.
Awards and Recognition

National Humanities Medal: He received this prestigious award in 1999, recognizing his significant contributions to the humanities and public understanding of history.

Other Honors: He also received other awards, including the Department of the Army Award for Distinguished Public Service and the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal from the Department of Defense.

Citizen Soldiers

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose’s iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army.

They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak—in Holland and the Ardennes—Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world.

From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments.

They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach; they parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign; they were the Battered Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne, brought in to hold the line, although surrounded, in the Battle of the Bulge; and then they spearheaded the counteroffensive. Finally, they captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost, his Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.

They were rough-and-ready guys, battered by the Depression, mistrustful and suspicious. They drank too much French wine, looted too many German cameras and watches, and fought too often with other GIs. But in training and combat they learned selflessness and found the closest brotherhood they ever knew. They discovered that in war, men who loved life would give their lives for them.

This is the story of the men who fought, of the martinet they hated who trained them well, and of the captain they loved who led them. E Company was a company of men who went hungry, froze, and died for each other, a company that took 150 percent casualties, a company where the Purple Heart was not a medal—it was a badge of office.

D-Day: June 6, 1944

On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall when they realised that nothing was as they had been told it would be. D-DAY is the brilliant, no holds barred, telling of the battles of Omaha and Utah beaches. Ambrose relives the epic victory of democracy on the most important day of the twentieth century.