Comrades, Stephen E. Ambrose
Comrades, Stephen E. Ambrose
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Comrades

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrator: Nelson Runger

Unabridged: 4 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2011


Synopsis

From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.

Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings. He writes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a golden gift for friendship and who shared a perfect trust with his younger brother Milton in spite of their apparently unequal stations. With great feeling, Ambrose brings to life the relationships of the young soldiers of Easy Company who fought and died together from Normandy to Germany, and he describes with admiration three who fought in different armies on different sides in that war and became friends later. He recounts the friendships of Lewis and Clark and of Crazy Horse and He Dog, and he tells the story of the Custer brothers who died together at the Little Big Horn.

Comrades concludes with the author’s moving recollection of his own friendship with his father. “He was my first and always most important friend. I didn’t learn that until the end, when he taught me the most important thing, that the love of father-son-father-son is a continuum, just as love and friendship are expansive.”

About Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mahlon on July 08, 2010

In Comrades, Stephen Ambrose examines male friendship throughout History by providing the reader with several case studies (including examples from his own youth) His chapters on the Eisenhower, and Custer Brothers are particularly strong. In addition he offers a penetrating analysis of the psyche o......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 15, 2022

This book explains and describes friendships and relationships shared between men and how they functioned. Mainly close friends who were like brothers. However, one chapter talked about President Nixon's inability to created or maintain a real friendship with anyone who worked or spent time around h......more

Goodreads review by Matt on December 18, 2020

I really enjoyed this book. Stephen Ambrose, my favorite author, delivers again. A quick easy read that highlights the value of friendship.......more

Goodreads review by David on April 04, 2023

Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster 1999) (302.3) (3753). What an odd little volume! Author Stephen E. Ambrose purportedly has penned a memoir to explore the bonds of (non-physical or sexual) love and trust that can exist between men. Having read th......more

Goodreads review by Ted on February 08, 2020

Stephen Ambrose, a well published historian, writes about friendship between men in this short book entitles, "Comrades." In a dozen brief essays, he describes a series of relationships he has either personally experienced, or has researched that he feels are noble. I have often felt that a strong,......more