>From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Stephen E. Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men who fought it. By explaining the story of the "GIs, junior officers and enlisted men" (Ambrose 14) who, in 1944 and 1945, proved Hitler wrong by driving his Wehrmacht back from the beaches of Normandy to the heart of Germany. As the name implies, Citizen Soldiers is not so much a …showed first 75 words of 1578 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1578 total…saw the most horrific war the world has ever experienced, this ugly part of history might not have to repeat itself. By clearly seeing that each of the 135,576 U.S. Military service men that were killed in World War II had a name, a face, a character to them unlike anyone else in the world, brings this history closer to the heart than that of just a number. I am haunted by war. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**