Nine days before he died, Stephen Ambrose called the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from his home in Bay St. Louis, Miss., to discuss a project that was dear to him - his new book about the Mississippi River ...

Ambrose, who called himself a hero worshipper, said in a recent interview that his focus on World War II developed from working on his Eisenhower biography and his memory of soldiers returning home ...

The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...