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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: STEVEN AMBROSE, RIP..   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 14, 2002 - 12:38 PM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) Steven Ambrose was a wonderful writer and historian.. He died yesteday, at age 66..And he lived every minute of those 66 years!! He brought to the attention of the public many of the stories of the WWII generation just before it was too late.. He worked with Spielberg, and Tom Hanks, as an advisor on "Saving Private Ryan", and "Band of Brothers", (based on his book).At the time of his death, he was still working on a book on Iwo Jima, and a possible film version, but what will become of that is yet to be seen. His book on Lewis and Clark "Undaunted Courage" was a bestseller, and created a whole new wave of enthusiasm for those great men..He loved to explore, and helped further preservation of many of our countrys most endangered historic places..I can go on, His books on "Ike" are staple reading..He will be sorely missed..RIP.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2002 - 12:51 PM     By:   Donna   (Member) How sad to lose someone so talented at such a relatively young age. Sending postive thoughts to his family.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2002 - 4:22 PM     By:   Spacehunter   (Member) I'm not very familiar with his work, but I'm certainly familiar with the name, as my dad has several of his books and really liked them. I wonder, since the BAND OF BROTHERS DVD set comes out in November, if they'll quickly put together a memorial tribute for him to go with it, but it might be too late to add anything else to the set.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2002 - 5:22 PM     By:   Eric Paddon   (Member) I'm one of those few people who knew Ambrose's reputation better from his less celebrated biographies of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as opposed to the military histories he became more popular for in the last decade. Ambrose was a brilliant writer who was one of the first academic historians to write a voluminous study in a more "popular" style format accessible to wider audiences. I envy his ability to put out so much in such a short time frame (to give you some idea of what I mean, Ambrose wrote a three volume Nixon biography, each volume more than 500 pages, in a span of only seven years. Robert Caro's multi-volume biography of LBJ has taken 20 years so far to produce three volumes and remains unfinished).    Posted:   Oct 15, 2002 - 12:02 AM     By:   dragon53   (Member) SPACEHUNTER: Read Ambrose's book, D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944---it's the best I've read on the subject. Cornelius Ryan's THE LONGEST DAY pales in comparison. Ambrose was also a driving force behind the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were big financial contributors to the museum. It's unfortunate Ambrose's image was somewhat tarnished by the recent plagiarism controversy.    Posted:   Oct 15, 2002 - 3:06 AM     By:   Spacehunter   (Member) My dad probably has that one. I'll have to look and see. I usually don't really care that much for reading "documentary"-type books, but being that it's about D-Day, I'd be willing to give it a try. np THE TIME MACHINE    Posted:   Oct 15, 2002 - 3:16 AM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) D-DAY book is a great place to start..If it's on the shelf, by all means, if you have not read it already, read it! My personal Ambrose favorites are "The Supreme Commander", (on Eisenhower) and "Crazy Horse and Custer", which is a "dual" biography..Both have been re-issued in softback..    Posted:   Oct 15, 2002 - 3:21 AM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) As Bruce Catton did in the sixties, to make the Civil War "accessable", to the common reader, so did Ambrose with WWII for this generation..He will be rememembered as a powerful force in doing so, as was Catton, in his time..     Non-Film Score Discussion: STEVEN AMBROSE, RIP..    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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