Stephen Ambrose's Birthday

Stephen Edward Ambrose was born January 10, 1936 and died October 13, 2002. He was a popular historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He grew up in Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin.

A partial list of books:

Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (1967)
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Vols. 1-5 (1967)
The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1970)
General Ike: Abilene to Berlin (1973)
Crazy Horse and Custer (1975): The epic clash of two great warriors at the Little Bighorn
Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (1981)
Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President Elect 1890-1952 (1983)
Eisenhower: The President (1985)
Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 (1987)
Pegasus Bridge (1988)
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972 (1989)
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 (1990)
Eisenhower: Soldier and President (1990)
Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood (1992)
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (1992)
D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II (1994)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996)
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997)
Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869(2000)
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew B-24s Over Germany (2001)
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian (2002)

I have a couple of books autographed by Stephen Ambrose.