As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently. - Stephen E. Ambrose
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As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.
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Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. In 2002, several instances of plagiarism were discovered in his books. In 2010, after his death, Ambrose was found to have fabricated interviews and events in his biographies of Eisenhower.
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British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
