American Heritage History of World War II

Stephen E. Ambrose · Cyrus Leo Sulzberger

Sep 2016 · New Word City

About this ebook

The American Heritage History of World War II was first published in 1966. At the time, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist C.L. Sulzberger received widespread praise for his authoritative account of the six-year war that involved more than fifty-six nations, resulted in the death of some 22 million people, and shaped the course of history. His work became a standard reference on the war.Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the most highly regarded historians of our time, oversaw a major revision of this classic work. Seamlessly incorporating new material and insights, Ambrose produced a comprehensive and riveting account of the war's key characters and events.

Ratings and reviews

Lied to about page count. Says almost 500 pages in description page but on purchasing and downloading it only has less than 300 pages and trying now to figure out how to get refund

Easy to understand. Organized in to the point chapters.

About the author

Noted historian Stephen E. Ambrose wrote multi-volume works on Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon and the bestsellers Band of Brothers, D-Day, and Undaunted Courage. He taught at the University of New Orleans, where he was founder of the Eisenhower Center. He was also the president of the National D-Day Museum.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist C.L. Sulzberger was the Balkan correspondent for The New York Times during World War II. After the war, he became chief of the Time's foreign correspondents and served as a foreign-affairs columnist for forty years. The author of two dozen books, he died in 1993.