Hugh Ambrose | Author, historian, 48
Hugh Ambrose, 48, who wrote the World War II history The Pacific after years of researching for his father, the renowned historian Stephen Ambrose, died of cancer May 23, his sister Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs said Tuesday.
Hugh Ambrose, 48, who wrote the World War II history
The Pacific
after years of researching for his father, the renowned historian Stephen Ambrose, died of cancer May 23, his sister Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs said Tuesday.
Mr. Ambrose began research for The Pacific with his father, and he carried on after his father's death in 2002. That culminated in the book and a 2010 HBO miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks that tells the story of the war's Pacific Theater through the eyes of individual Marines.
Mr. Ambrose began his career while he was in graduate school at the University of Montana in the mid-1990s by helping his father research books such as Undaunted Courage, the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
He also worked on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, based on his father's book. But he found his own success with the best-selling The Pacific. - AP