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    Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Sons, Pals
    Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Sons, Pals
    Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Sons, Pals
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    Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Sons, Pals

    Written by Stephen E. Ambrose

    Narrated by Stephen E. Ambrose

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    From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.

    Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings. He writes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a golden gift for friendship and who shared a perfect trust with his younger brother Milton in spite of their apparently unequal stations. With great feeling, Ambrose brings to life the relationships of the young soldiers of Easy Company who fought and died together from Normandy to Germany, and he describes with admiration three who fought in different armies on different sides in that war and became friends later. He recounts the friendships of Lewis and Clark and of Crazy Horse and He Dog, and he tells the story of the Custer brothers who died together at the Little Big Horn.

    Comrades concludes with the author’s moving recollection of his own friendship with his father. “He was my first and always most important friend. I didn’t learn that until the end, when he taught me the most important thing, that the love of father-son-father-son is a continuum, just as love and friendship are expansive.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 1999
    ISBN9780743545259
    Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Sons, Pals
    Author

    Stephen E. Ambrose

    Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.

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    • 3/5
      I very much like Mr. Ambrose’s work in general. This was a short, very personal work for him.
    • 4/5
      From the man behind "Band of Brothers" comes a reflection on the relationships that bind men together. There are short pieces about the Eisenhower brothers, Nixon, Lewis and Clark and more. I enjoy his writing style and this one is short and packed with interesting info.
    • 3/5
      This is a collection of historical essays on friendship. Some of the subjects are historical figures that Ambrose has written about at length previously (Lewis and Clark, Eisenhower, Nixon, Crazy Horse, Custer, Easy Company) and some are personal (his brothers, his father, his college friends). This is easy reading for history, more character sketches and anecdotes than anything else, and through it Ambrose does make some interesting points about friendship and character. Some of the chapters are not well focused – the Easy Company in “Band of Brothers” is dealt with rather confusingly and reads more like a postscript to the book. This is worthwhile, but not compelling, reading.