Stephen E. Ambrose Reading Order

7 books (1976–2005)

Stephen E. Ambrose edited seven anthologies of historical essays published between 1976 and 2005, spanning topics from military leadership and the Vietnam War to alternate history scenarios and the Cold War. This complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Soldiers as Statesmen. The collections bring together perspectives from renowned historians and military experts examining pivotal moments and figures in American history and warfare.

Start with Soldiers as Statesmen, the first of 7 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Soldiers as Statesmen 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	America's Intervention In Vietnam: An Anthology 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	What if? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	No End Save Victory 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	West Point: Two Centuries of Honor and Tradition 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Cold War 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1983–1984)

Stephen E. Ambrose's two-volume biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower was published in 1983 and 1984 and is now complete. Read the volumes in publication order, beginning with Volume 1, for the full chronological account of the military leader and U.S. president's life and career.

Start with Eisenhower, Volume #1 and read in order.

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1	Eisenhower, Volume #1 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Eisenhower, Volume #2 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1994–1999)

The Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace is a completed three-book nonfiction series published between 1994 and 1999. These works, edited by Stephen E. Ambrose in collaboration with various scholars, examine pivotal moments in twentieth-century military and diplomatic history through primary sources and scholarly analysis. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Voices of D-Day, followed by the Eisenhower centenary assessment, and concluding with Architects of Intervention, which explores American Cold War foreign policy.

Start with Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There(By: Ronald J. Drez) and read in order.

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1	Voices of D-Day(By: Ronald J. Drez) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There(By: Ronald J. Drez) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Eisenhower(With: Günter Bischof) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment(With: Günter Bischof) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Architects of Intervention(By: Zachary Karabell) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Architects of Intervention: The United States the Third World and the Cold War 1946-1962(By: Zachary Karabell) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1987–1991)

Stephen E. Ambrose's Nixon is a complete three-volume biographical series published between 1987 and 1991. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Volume 1 and progressing sequentially through Volume 3 to follow the narrative arc of this comprehensive non-fiction work.

Start with Nixon Volume #1 and read in order.

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1	Nixon Volume #1 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Nixon Volume #2 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Nixon Volume #3 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

28 books (1962–2002)

Stephen E. Ambrose authored 28 nonfiction works published between 1962 and 2002, covering American military history, biography, and foreign policy. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Halleck and progressing through his landmark studies of World War II figures like Eisenhower and the soldiers of Band of Brothers, as well as his explorations of American expansion and military institutions. Ambrose's extensive body of work spans from institutional histories to detailed accounts of pivotal military campaigns and the lives of significant American leaders and soldiers.

Start with Halleck, the first of 28 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	Halleck 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Upton and the Army 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Institutions in Modern America 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Military and American Society 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Milton S. Eisenhower: Educational Statesman(With: Richard H. Immerman) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Pegasus Bridge: D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Eisenhower: Soldier and President 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	D-Day: June 6, 1944, The Climactic Battle of World War II 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	American Heritage: New History of World War II 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Americans at War 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Citizen Soldiers: From the Normandy Beaches to the Surrender of Germany 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of WWII 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Victory in Europe, May 1945 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Witness to America(With: Douglas Brinkley) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Wild Blue: The Men And Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany, 1944-45 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today(With: Douglas Brinkley) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1967–1976)

The Norton Essays in American History is a four-book nonfiction series published between 1967 and 1976, now complete. These concise historical essays should be read in publication order, beginning with Andrew Jackson and the Bank War. The series examines pivotal moments and institutions in American history, with each volume offering focused analysis on topics ranging from nineteenth-century politics to twentieth-century economics and regulation.

Start with Andrew Jackson and the Bank War(By: Robert V. Remini), the first of 4 books in the Norton Essays in American History series.

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1	Andrew Jackson and the Bank War(By: Robert V. Remini) 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s(By: Robert Sobel) 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A History of the ICC(By: Ari Hoogenboom) 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2003–2003)

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1	This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible