Ambrose's ''Citizen Soldiers'' is a sequel to the story of the American fighting man in the European theater of operations begun in ''D-Day,'' his acclaimed 1994 account of the Normandy landings Historians, however, have largely neglected the role of ordinary soldiers, how they fought and the consequences of battle to them, but two outstanding new books redress this omission. Their ordeals have been poignantly portrayed in novels like ''The Naked and the Dead,'' by Norman Mailer, and ''The Since the end of that war there has been a stream of memoirs and fiction recording the experiences of these people. This immense force was composed almost entirely of citizens who voluntarily (and involuntarily by way of the draft) answered Six years later, more thanĨ.2 million men and women were serving in the Army, and around 3.8 million in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Hen Hitler's armies invaded Poland in September 1939 and ignited World War II, the Army of the United States numbered less than 200,000. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945. Two books give ordinary American soldiers the lion's share of the credit for winning World War II.
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