New York — Historian Stephen Ambrose has been accused of plagiarizing sections of his new book about World War II bomber pilots, "The Wild Blue."
Fred Barnes, a columnist for "The Weekly Standard," argues in the Jan. 14 issue of the magazine that Ambrose borrowed passages from "The Wings of Morning," a book by historian Thomas Childers about the same topic.
Ambrose included footnotes that cite Childers' book as a source for the sections, but the footnotes do not acknowledge that Ambrose quotes directly from the book, Barnes said.
Childers told The New York Times for Saturday's editions that he had concluded that Ambrose borrowed from his book extensively and said he was "sort of disappointed."
The two books have several similar passages, according to Barnes. Ambrose, speaking through a relative, declined to comment to The Associated Press on Saturday.
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