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Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose Reading Order

7 series · 51 books · Born 1936-01-10

Non-Fiction

Stephen E. Ambrose was a prolific American historian known for his detailed narrative accounts of twentieth-century U.S. political and military history. He spent much of his career as a history professor at the University of New Orleans while simultaneously building a reputation as a bestselling author through comprehensive biographies of presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. His works, which spanned from the early 1960s through the early 2000s, brought scholarly rigor to popular history writing and helped shape public understanding of the World War II era and Cold War America.

Anthologies Series

Complete

7 books (1976–2005)

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

Start this series with Soldiers as Statesmen

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

Eisenhower Series

Complete

2 books (1983–1984)

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

Start this series with Eisenhower, Volume #1

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

Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace Series

Complete

6 books (1994–1999)

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.

Start this series with Voices of D-Day(By: Ronald J. Drez)

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Voices of D-Day(By: Ronald J. Drez)
1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There(By: Ronald J. Drez)
1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Eisenhower(With: Günter Bischof)
1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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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

Nixon Series

Complete

3 books (1987–1991)

Start with Nixon Volume #1 and read in order.

Start this series with Nixon Volume #1

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

Non-Fiction Series

Complete

28 books (1962–2002)

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

Start this series with Halleck

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

Norton Essays in American History Series

Complete

4 books (1967–1976)

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.

Start this series with Andrew Jackson and the Bank War(By: Robert V. Remini)

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

Standalone Novels Series

Complete

1 book (2003–2003)

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Stephen E. Ambrose written?
Stephen E. Ambrose has written 51 books across 7 series. Their published works span from 1962 to 2005.
What is the first book in each Stephen E. Ambrose series?
Here are the first books in Stephen E. Ambrose's series: Anthologies: Soldiers as Statesmen; Eisenhower: Eisenhower, Volume #1; Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace: Voices of D-Day(By: Ronald J. Drez); Nixon: Nixon Volume #1; Non-Fiction: Halleck.
What order should I read Stephen E. Ambrose's books?
We recommend reading Stephen E. Ambrose's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
Are Stephen E. Ambrose's series complete?
Stephen E. Ambrose has 7 completed series.

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