Ambrose's D-Day Review

Stephen Ambrose, using his vast knowledge of historical studies, has written over

30 books, garnering numerous accolades and acclaim. Ambrose was even chosen to act

as the historical consultant for Steven Spielberg’s movie, “Saving Private Ryan”.

Spielberg and Tom Hanks later purchased the filming rights to his books, “Citizen

Soldiers” and “Band of Brothers” to make the HBO mini-series, “Band of Brothers”.

Though it was his interest into D-Day that urged him to write the novel, D Day: June 6,

1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II. After the novel was published, Ambrose used

his ties in New Orleans (Ambrose is a retired professor from the University of New

Orleans) to found a D-Day museum there. Of his five New York Times best-sellers, none

are presented in a more authentic fashion than D-Day, dedicated to a peer and fellow

historian, Dr. Forrest Pogue, who served as a soldier aboard a landing ship tank off the

coast of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

In writing D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II, Stephen

soldiers positioned correctly to defend each area. Although the Germans had an

our men harboring the land, the U.S. and their allies finally had the foothold needed to

the Americans’ ability to carry tanks on their ships and discharge these tanks on shallow

most guarded and most wide open place; Although it took the longest, the Americans

each side possessed, the generals and their command tactics, and the equal distribution of

Half of the 32 chapters chronicle the infantry’s beach assault, with the majority of

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