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)
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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.