5 Quotes & Sayings By Stephen Ambrose

Stephen T. Ambrose is an American historian, writer, and lecturer. He is the author of numerous books on the history of the U.S. military in the twentieth century, including Team of Teams, D-Day, Citizen Soldiers, Citizen Sailors, Citizen Soldiers: The Battle for Iwo Jima, Band of Brothers, A Rumor of War, Nothing Lasts Forever: The Story of the Men Who Ran the Hellships at Normandy (with Douglas Brinkley), Citizen Soldiers (with Rick Atkinson), and Ike's Spies (with Lou Fancher) Read more

He is also the author of books on World War II leaders such as George S. Patton and Dwight Eisenhower. Ambrose was born in Chicago in 1936.

He graduated from Yale University in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. For more than thirty years he has taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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War creates many strange juxtapositions, perhaps none stranger than this: men who are doing their utmost to kill other men can transform in a split second into lifesavers. Soldiers who encounter a wounded man (often an enemy) become tender, caring angels of mercy. The urge to kill and the urge to save sometimes run together simultaneously. Stephen Ambrose
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. Stephen Ambrose
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. Stephen Ambrose
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly. Stephen Ambrose