false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169881009m/42389.jpg 42389 23 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.<p> 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, <I>Band of Brothers</I> illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle." <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 903474 book 1992 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest total:3779|5:1841|4:1410|3:472|2:50|1:6| 3779 16367 4917 464 5 5 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 21:39:31 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 21:36:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Mon May 26 19:43:11 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 20:02:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Apr 03 02:25:56 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 07:43:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 27 12:56:50 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:39:00 -0700 2008
A few things that jump out at you about real life vs. the miniseries:

Winters was not the golden boy HBO makes him out to be. ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Feb 10 14:24:13 -0800 2008 Sat May 17 12:06:26 -0700 2008 'From this day to the ending of the world, we in it shall be remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.'

-Shakespeare; "Henry V"

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But what really intrigued me were the depths the book dived to, and the delicacy Ambrose had dealing with the true intricacy's of combat. T...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 20 07:59:04 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 15:18:26 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 07:59:04 -0800 2008
Though, you should be warned that Ambrose editorializes quite a bit throughout the book, e.g., "because we were a democracy,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 09:03:57 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 11:35:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 11:06:07 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 14:25:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 10:09:32 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 10:19:15 -0800 2008
My biggest issue with this bo...more...]]> 4 1 true false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Jul 30 07:23:16 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 08:23:17 -0700 2007 but there isn't anything like seeing them in perso...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 14:22:40 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 14:42:35 -0700 2009
Reading the book gave me a better understanding of where the paratroopers came from, how motivated they wer...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jun 02 11:30:35 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 11:42:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 09:22:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 13:07:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 08:27:06 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 08:38:34 -0800 2009
The discipline these men had is amazing to read about. The battles and situations they were put in were intense. The au...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 16 21:49:50 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 20:55:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 09 19:20:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 21:44:50 -0700 2009
Though no great stylist, Ambrose ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 22:47:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 19:06:02 -0700 2009 Band of Brothers. I finally bought this triumphantly for $3.99 at Borders! All of Ambrose books were $3.99 so I might pick up another one of his books--maybe.

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