[RIP] Steven Ambrose

This morning, age 66, lung cancer. If you haven't read Band of Brothers, you
should.

Oh no, Man, he was something else. Here's hoping the Eisenhower Center and
D-Day
museum go on w/o him.

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:14:20 -0400, "Laserlight"
<laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> This morning, age 66, lung cancer. If you haven't read Band of

Geez, hadn't heard about this!

Recently Ambrose got into some controversy with regard to plagiarism,
particularly in his latest book _The Wild Blue_. It appears that either
he, or his researchers, got sloppy with regard to footnotes. He also had
passages from other research which was in essentially the same wording as the
original. It doesn't take away from the actual history he put into his books,
and the problems seem to be mostly found in his latest few books.

Along with _Band of Brothers_ I can recommend _D-Day_. Still on my
shelves and
waiting for me to read are _Citizen Soldiers_, _The Wild Blue_, and _The
Victors_. I will probably get _Pegasus Bridge_, and I'm seriously
considering his first book, a study of General Henry Halleck.

In spite of the controversy, he did a lot to educate and popularize the Second
World War in the US. It was in good part to his work that _Saving
Private
Ryan_ rose above the average "bang, drop dead" war movie to show how
truly brutal combat can be.

Truly a sad day. Ambrose had gotten to the point where even "joe citizen" had
heard of him and he helped raise awareness of what was accomplished by the
people who fought WWII.

Of those books you mentioned I've read "Citizen Soldiers", and "Pegasus
Bridge". Both are excellent. I will also give my recommendation on Band
and D-Day.  The really nice thing about D-Day is that you can read a
chapter independently of the rest of the book and still appreciate it.

Bill

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> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:23:17 -0500
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> Along with _Band of Brothers_ I can recommend _D-Day_. Still on my