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

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Older British observers complained, “The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here.”

(To which the Yanks would reply, “The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.”)

Sitting helplessly under intense artillery fire is pure hell, combat at its absolute worst.

Eisenhower learned from the experience; in March 1945 he wrote his wife, “I never count my Germans until they’re in our cages, or are buried!”

Holland is the most densely populated country on earth).

Democracy proved better able to produce young men who could be made into superb soldiers than Nazi Germany.

I have reached a point in my life where, if I am not doing some writing every day, I am not happy,