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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals
 
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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1999-06-02)
ISBN: 0684867184
EAN: 9780684867182
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 144 pages
Edition: 1ST
SKU: 574333
Condition: Like New
Comments: Hardcover book with a great dust jacket. 1st print. Hardcover book, dust cover and pages are in wonderful condition, clean and tight. SHIPS IMMEDIATELY WITH FREE TRACKING, GREAT PACKAGING. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.

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The author looks at his own friendships with his father and brothers, as well as friendships between other brothers, fellow soldiers, and colleagues.
Amazon.com Review
This tender book about male friendship will probably surprise those readers who know Stephen Ambrose best for his histories of World War II and biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in 1936, Ambrose acknowledges in the introduction to his memoir that men of his generation do not speak or write easily about their feelings. Yet male bonding is a strong theme in all of his work, as selections from previous writings on Lewis and Clark, Richard Nixon, Crazy Horse, and General Custer that are included in Comrades prove. What is more interesting, however, is the more personal material on Ambrose's two brothers (their youthful competitiveness mellowed into mature devotion), fellow historian Gordon Mueller ("my dearest and closest friend"), and several college buddies. After losing touch with each other during the harried years of career building and child rearing, these men rediscovered intimacy in middle age. Most moving of all is the closing chapter on Ambrose's father, an old-fashioned authority figure and disciplinarian quick to criticize his sons, but always available to sustain and guide them. The warming of that rather stern relationship is clearly one of the great joys of his son's adult life. It makes a fitting finale to a dignified but strikingly sweet memoir. --Wendy Smith
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