![]() ![]() His extraordinarily widespread appeal almost certainly ensures that Ambrose will mold another American generation's understanding of the war. But in The Good Fight, written "for young readers," he promises to present a chronicle of the entire global struggle. military's participation in the European theater of operations. His previous books examined only the U.S. "So they fought," and thereby "stopped Hitler and Tojo."īuttressed by the NBC news anchorman Tom Brokaw, whose enormously popular The Greatest Generation (1998) and The Greatest Generation Speaks (1999) are largely inspired by Ambrose's work, Ambrose has come to define the war in the American mind. America's fighting men "didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed," Ambrose declares. ![]() According to this view, America waged a "crusade" to rid the world of the tyrannical and racist regimes of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Ambrose has advanced a pious interpretation of America's role in World War II. In his best-selling books Band of Brothers (1992), D-Day: J(1994), and Citizen Soldiers (1997), the gruff historian Stephen E. ![]()
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