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Title: Comrades : Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals by Stephen E. Ambrose, Jon Friedman ISBN: 0-7432-0074-8 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A quick read with a lasting impression
Comment: I picked up this book in the airport as I headed off for a 4 hour flight. I knew that given its author it would be an interesting "quick read". I had enjoyed many other books by Ambrose and looked forward to another.
In this short compilation Ambrose explores the relationships between men as "brothers, fathers, heroes, sons and pals". Similar to his other works, this book examines its topics through the lives of specific people -- Ambrose himself, his father and brothers, and others he has met or researched. What emerges is a theme of loyalty, fealty and connection that is unique and binding.
True to my estimation this book was enjoyable and easy to read. Ambrose draws few conclusions but rather allows the reader to discover the simultaneous complexity and simplicity of these disparate relationships.
In an age where pop psychologists diagnose and prescribe broad generalisms about gender and relationships it is nice to find someone who appreciates men for who and what they are. I look forward to Ambrose's next work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ambrose Identifies a Need in Today's World
Comment: When I began listening to this on tape (unabridged) I fully expected a series of war stories emphasizing the bonding which takes place under combat conditions. Instead I found a riveting description of how important it is to value the friendship of those you love. In a world when close friendships are questioned because they are consdidered old fashioned, Ambrose examines personal friendships from his own experiences, including his relationship with his father, as well as historical friendships which he researched. These included famous military men, explorers, and most meaningfully friendships he developed himself in his various lives. The description of friendship found at the end of the chapter on Lewis and Clark is one of the best I have ever read. In a helter-skelter world appreciation for friendship and the close bonds contained therein is a glaring need which we all feel. It is far more than just a series of vignettes about "the guys" but more importantly a fascinating look into the need to be a friend and to enjoy the friendship of those who mean the most to you.
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT, EASY, INSPIRING READ
Comment: I'm not a historian, but I am a son, and I have a father and many friends. This book, using his own life and his influential father as well as the lives of the Eisenhower boys, the Custer boys, Crazy Horse and He Dog, Eisenhower and Patton, and Nixon, poignantly and emotionally demonstrates the immense joy, satisfaction, and power that is to be had in the relationships that can only be shared between father and son and between two best friends. Reading Ambrose's heartfelt musings, I was often reminded of my own relationship with my father. I bought him one and he had the same reaction, thinking of both his father and me.
Having read the majority of Ambrose's works from which he pulled the short chapters for Comrades, I was perhaps even that much more moved by the essays. Using quick summaries and then providing insight gained from his years of research and life experience, Ambrose shows how the intimacy among friends and family drive can help drive us to much greater heights than would have been possible alone.
I strongly recommend this book.
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Title: The VICTORS : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0684856298 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 28 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: PEGASUS BRIDGE by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: 0671671561 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 068480137X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: CITIZEN SOLDIERS : THE U S ARMY FROM THE NORMANDY BEACHES TO THE BULGE TO THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0684848015 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 24 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: B0000CAR5S Pub. Date: 11 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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