Stephen Edward Ambrose (1936-2002) was an American author of non-fiction books who wrote biographies on U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon as well as books on American and military history. Ambrose earned his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960. Besides writing biographies on Eisenhower and Nixon, he also wrote books on Crazy Horse, General Custer, D-Day, Lewis and Clark and many others. Ambrose died from lung cancer in April 2002. He had a wife, Moira and five children.
Stephen E. Ambrose became a published author in 1967 with the non-fiction book Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point. His first and only novel was actually published posthumously, which was a fictional journal entitled This Vast Land: A Young Man’s Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and was published in 2003. Below is a list of Stephen E. Ambrose’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Eisenhower Books
Publication Order of Nixon Books
Publication Order of Norton Essays in American History Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Halleck | (1962) |    |
| Upton and the Army | (1964) | |
| Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point | (1966) | |
| Institutions in Modern America | (1967) | |
| The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower | (1970) | |
| Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 | (1971) | |
| The Military and American Society | (1972) | |
| Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors | (1975) | |
| Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment | (1981) | |
| Milton S. Eisenhower: Educational Statesman | (1983) | |
| Pegasus Bridge: D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid | (1984) | |
| Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest | (1992) | |
| D-Day: June 6, 1944, The Climactic Battle of World War II | (1994) | |
| Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West | (1996) | |
| Americans at War | (1997) | |
| American Heritage: New History of World War II | (1997) | |
| Citizen Soldiers: From the Normandy Beaches to the Surrender of Germany | (1997) | |
| The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of WWII | (1998) | |
| Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery | (1998) | |
| Victory in Europe, May 1945 | (1998) | |
| Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals | (1999) | |
| Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today | (1999) | |
| Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 | (2000) | |
| The Wild Blue: The Men And Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany, 1944-45 | (2001) | |
| The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won | (2001) | |
| To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian | (2002) | |
| The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today | (2002) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Notes: The books Rise to Globalism and Witness to America were written with Douglas Brinkley. Milton S. Eisenhower was co-authored with Richard H. Immerman. Stephen Ambrose updated the original text of American Heritage: New History of World War II, which was written by C.L. Sulzberger. Ambrose contributed to The Cold War: A Military History along with authors Caleb Carr, Thomas Fleming, Victor Davis Hanson, David McCullough, Simon Winchester and others.
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