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This tender book about male friendship will probably surprise those
readers who know Stephen Ambrose best for his histories of World War
II and biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in 1936, Ambrose
acknowledges in the introduction to his memoir that men of his generation
do not speak or write easily about their feelings. Yet male bonding is
a
strong theme in all of his work, as selections from previous writings on
Lewis and Clark, Richard Nixon, Crazy Horse, and General Custer that
are included in Comrades prove. What is more interesting, however, is
the more personal material on Ambrose's two brothers (their youthful
competitiveness mellowed into mature devotion), fellow historian Gordon
Mueller ("my dearest and closest friend"), and several college buddies.
After losing touch with each other during the harried years of career
building and child rearing, these men rediscovered intimacy in middle age.
Most moving of all is the closing chapter on Ambrose's father, an
old-fashioned authority figure and disciplinarian quick to criticize his
sons,
but always available to sustain and guide them. The warming of that
rather stern relationship is clearly one of the great joys of his son's
adult
life. It makes a fitting finale to a dignified but strikingly sweet memoir.
--Wendy Smith
Book Description of Stephen Ambrose book Comrades : Brothers,
Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals by Stephen E. Ambrose
Comrades is a celebration of male friendships. Acclaimed historian
Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward -- he
starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and
the
shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and
misunderstandings. He next writes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a
golden gift for friendship and who shared a perfect trust with his younger
brother Milton in spite of their apparently unequal stations. With great
emotion, Ambrose describes the relationships of the young soldiers of
Easy Company who fought and died together from Normandy to
Germany, and he recalls with admiration three unlikely friends who fought
in different armies in that war. He recounts the friendships of Lewis and
Clark and of Crazy Horse and He Dog, and he tells the story of the
Custer brothers who died together at the Little Big Horn. Ambrose
remembers and celebrates the friends he has made and kept throughout
his life.
Comrades concludes with the author's recollection of his own friendship
with his father. "He was my first and always most important friend,"
Ambrose writes. "I didn't learn that until the end, when he taught me the
most important thing, that the love of father-son-father-son is a
continuum, just as love and friendship are expansive."
Stephen
Ambrose book Comrades : Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals by
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