A description of life in the Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, US Army, from the time of their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory. Drawing on interviews, journals and letters, the author tells - often in their own words - the story of these American heroes.

In the early hours of 6th June 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defence forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II.

On the basis of 1400 oral histories from the men who were there, this account reveals how the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired.

From the author of D-Day and Band of Brothers comes the story of the ordinary soldiers in Northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bittersweet days of the war. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from those on both sides of the war.

From the author of 'Band of Brothers', this title is a history of the war in Europe, and of the ordinary men who fought, endured, and won.

Presents a survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term.

This title describes how the United States Air Force recruited, trained and then chose the few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in WWII. These were the boys turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators and gunners of the B24s, who suffered 50 per cent casualties.

By the author of Band of Brothers , this title recounts the colourful characters involved with the opening of the American West, beginning with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1803. Drama, suspense, danger and diplomacy combine with romance and personal tragedy.

Milton S Eisenhower was one of the most honored and influential statesmen whose career spanned government and higher education, and he was a shaping force in both. This book traces the 34th President's younger brother's path from small-town Kansas into the Washington bureaucracy and on through the presidencies of Kansas State, and Penn State.

An account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building of the railroad that united America's East and West.

In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany, a line had to be drawn to prevent a clash between the Russian and Anglo-American armies. Ambrose describes the political and military aspects of the situation, explains the alternatives and considers the results.

The lives of Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux and General George Armstrong Custer, leader of the US Seventh Cavalry, were forever linked when they faced each other on the banks of the Little Bighorn in 1876. This is the story of the lives of these two men.

The brave men who built the American Transcontinental Railroad between 1865 and 1869 came from China, Ireland and the defeated South. The Union had won the Civil War and the government pitted the Union Pacific against the Central Pacific in a race that encouraged speed over caution.