HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Hugh Ambrose, who wrote the World War II history "The Pacific" after years of researching for his father, the renowned historian Stephen Ambrose, has died at age 48. Ambrose died of cancer Saturday in Helena, sister Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs said Tuesday. Hugh Ambrose began research for "The Pacific" with his father, and he carried on after Stephen Ambrose'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. 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 continued to conduct research for Stephen Ambrose's books, including "Nothing Like it in the World" and "Citizen Soldiers," and worked on the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" that was based on his father's book. But Hugh Ambrose found his own success with the best-selling "The Pacific." "His dad's legacy was important to him, but he definitely was a historian in his own right," his wife, Andrea Ambrose, said Tuesday. Ambrose grew up in Louisiana, where his father was a professor at the University of New Orleans.

 

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