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It is not often that an historian joins the ranks of authors on the bestseller lists, but Stephen E. Ambrose has managed to do just that with a clutch of historical accounts of World War II--including D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II and its sequel, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany--and the opening of the American West--including Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West and Nothing like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. Ambrose, a "biographer and historian extraordinaire," according to Booklist's Nancy Spillman, has written about generals, presidents, explorers, major military battles, and foreign policy in his twenty-plus books, always demonstrating an uncommon ability to bring history and historical actors to vivid life.
Ambrose had already had a productive and distinguished career when events of the late 1990s brought him increased fame: he served as an historical consultant on Steven Spielberg's 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, which contributed to a surge of interest in World War II that included renewed interest in Ambrose's own books on the subject.
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