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Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

by: Stephen E. Ambrose

: Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5421
EAN: 9780743224543
ISBN: 074322454X
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 06, 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Sales Rank: 2176
Studio: Simon & Schuster



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Product Description:
As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these American heroes.

Amazon.com:
As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling 'half-peeled bananas,' on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest,' where they drank the madman's (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Bobby Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic C.O. who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral.

The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a G.I. by his C.O. for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls 'the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle.' --Tim Appelo

Amazon.com Audibook Review:
The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose's tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Lou Schuler



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Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Tony Bate's Review Right On!
Anthony Bates couldn't have said it better. It's shocking that so many readers out there just gobble ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Real American Heroes
Band of Brothers is the kind of stories I used to hear from my father and uncles of their experiences ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - It's been said already, but I'll say it again
This book defines what it means to be an American Soldier. It's a story of victory, defeat, good times ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Very poor quality
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Bravery and Determination was Unsurpassed
One of those books; I can't seem to put down. I'm thankful I have watched the movie, Band of Brothers, for I ... Read More

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