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First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Summary; Comrades Comrades concludes with the author's recollection of his own friendship with his father. "He was my first and always most important friend," Ambrose writes. "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." Physical Description; 139 pages. Contents; Introduction; One Brothers: The Ambrose Boys; Two Brothers: The Eisenhower Boys; Three Brothers: The Custer Boys; Four Friendship for Life: Crazy Horse and He Dog; Five Peers: Eisenhower and Patton; Six Nary a Friend: Richard Nixon; Seven A Lifetime of Friends; Eight Dearest Friend; Nine Faithful Friends: Lewis and Clark; Ten Combat Friends: The Men of Easy Company; Eleven Veterans; Twelve: Father and Son; About the Author. Subjects; Ambrose, Stephen E. Ambrose, Stephen E. Friends and associates. Friendship. Male friendship. 1 Kg. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 9th revised edition. 480 pages. 7.88x5.22x1.06 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 9th revised edition. 480 pages. 7.88x5.22x1.06 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 272 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 368 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 511, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography Index. No price on DJ but no book club mark on rear cover. Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American history. Ambrose was a history professor from 1960 until his retirement in 1995. From 1971 onward, he was a member of the University of New Orleans faculty, where he was named the Boyd Professor of History in 1989, an honor given to faculty who attain "national or international distinction for outstanding teaching, research, or other creative achievement". During the 19691970 academic year, he was the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College. He founded the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans in 1989 with, "The mission of the Eisenhower Center is the study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of American national security policy and the use of force as an instrument of policy in the twentieth century." He served as its director until 1994. The center's first efforts, which Ambrose initiated, involved the collection of oral histories from World War II veterans about their experiences, particularly any participation in D-Day. By the time of publication of Ambrose's D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, in 1994, the center had collected more than 1,200 oral histories. From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson's. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel. MacDuff Everton (Author photograph) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. dj. Octavo, ix, 190 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue and red with white print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear. Price unclipped: "$5.00". Boards in blue cloth. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates (photographs). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K (ND-K). 1416739. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Thick octavo, [three volumes], 752pp; 736pp; 667pp. All first editions, first printings, with complete number lines. All hardcovers with cloth spines. Occasional pencil marks from Mr. Sapphire, with notes near passages pertaining to his time in the Nixon Administration. All three volumes in near fine condition, volume III with some separation at front hinge, not affecting the integrity of the text block. In near fine dust jackets, retail price on each volume, some toning to the spine of Volume II, light shelf wear to Volume I. Inscribed by Stephen Ambrose to Mr. William Safire in Volume I and Volume II. Inscription reads: "For Mr. Safire, from his fan, Stephen Ambrose." Second inscription reads: "For Bill Safire, With thanks for all the help (see acknowledgments and footnotes and index - w/o Safire, no book), Sincerely, Stephen Ambrose." William Safire was a Pulitzer Prize winning conservative columnist for the New York Times. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of "libertarian conservatives." Before joining the New York Times, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. The complete three volume set of Nixon by Stephen E. Ambrose, all first printings, inscribed by the author to William Safire. (illustrator). Signed.…