Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Author: Stephen E. AmbroseBrand: HBO
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-06
ISBN: 074322454X
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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- ISBN13: 9780743224543
- Condition: New
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Book Review: The Unforgettable story of The men of Easy Company
Summary: 5 Stars
Band of Brothers is a true to life story about the training and war experiences that Easy Company of the 506th regiment, 101st airborne lived through during the Second World War. The men of Easy Company were like every other company put together, all men who came from either a small town or major city. Yet when they begin the hard training the men endure physical testing that they have never experienced in their lives. Yet the men grow and build up together and begin to create bonds unlike any others. Due to the great amount of pressure they are being put through and the most difficult training the army has to offer because of the brand new Airborne infantry which Easy company along with the rest of the 101st airborne and other divisions who were forging the new concept of airborne infantry. The reason why this book is incredibly well written and worth reading is because the author Stephen Ambrose interviews all of the men who served in easy company from its formation, what they had gone through and what were their personal accounts of that certain day or battle that they took part in. This book takes WWII to a whole different level when you think of the sacrifices that were made to ensure victory. The men of easy company distinguished themselves as being one of the best rifle companies in the entire world and had contributed more than any other company, and endured more than any other company who had seen combat in the War. The author writes the book in such a way to describe what went on in a fashion that paints a picture that you can imagine in your mind. You can just picture what the men of easy company had gone through while being dropped out of a plane under the cover of darkness from the skis over Normandy before the seaborne invasion, to being huddled in a foxhole that they dug while being encircled by the relentless German enemy while in Bastogne with no reinforcements. The book gives a profound feeling that at that time in Easy company's existence, hope was not a feeling of a safe return home away from all war, but that hope represents that you would not let yourself down, and you would not let your comrades down and thinking about getting home later. The very stories of this book will describe to you an unforgettable story about the citizen soldiers who stepped up and became the best fighting force in the entire army.
Easy company was by far one of the most distinguished and recognized companies throughout the entire war, for this book are the story of the men who fought and died for each other. There story will live on forever in the minds of the people who served in easy company and survived all of the war, death, and pure hell of being in combat in Europe during WWII.
-Ryan Mancini
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Summary of Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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.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
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