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Ambrose's vivid and compelling essays take you to the heart of America's wars, from Grant's stunning Fourth of July victory at Vicksburg, to Nixon's surprise Christmas bombing of Hanoi. He brings to life the ambition and charisma that led to Custer's great success in the Civil War and the fateful disaster at Little Big Horn. Ambrose puts you on the beaches of Normandy with the common footsoldier and inthe headquarters of America's great commanders, Eisenhower, Patton, and MacArthur. He takes you to the trenches of the homefront, ground zero of the Atomic Bomb, and the arsenals of the twenty-first century.
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