Part 1 of Essay
The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany Citizen Soldiers, by Stephen E. Ambrose, is an account of the hardships and triumphs of war endured by the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces in the "European Theatre of Operations" in World War II. The essence of the book lies in the stories ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... Nazis, and all in between. While there is little in the way of main plot or story to this book, there is indeed an overall message that the book conveys, a universal theme. The theme being the unit cohesion, teamwork, and the sense of family that develops within a squad and platoon; which are the qualities most World War II combat veterans point to when asked how they survived and won. Each incident given by a person represents in its own way the personal levels of war, how it affected the individual and thei ....