His unprecedented four-year popularity has been sustained by an incredible economic growth which has been at eight percent each year, mostly due to increases in prices of Argentinean commodities in the world market, a situation no different than the one Juan Domingo PerC3n experienced during the post World War II years.

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Balkoski said he had mixed feelings about the situation because Ambrose's books have done so much to interest the public in World War II books, and because Ambrose wrote the forward to a 1999 softcover edition of Beyond the Beachhead.

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