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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.