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Summary: Exciting story
Review: This book is an exciting view into the world of an elite group of soldiers. The men of E Company who survived the war sure had some interesting stories! I enjoyed this book very much.
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Summary: An Interesting Look at this Elite Group
Review: The book is very interesting in that it takes an elite military group at looks at it from its initial formation all the way through the end of the war. Easy Company trains, drops into Normandy, and fights all the way across Europe and we get to follow. This book uses many first hand accounts of the men of Easy Company and gives the reader a sense of intimacy with those that faught ...Germany.
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Summary: details of historical events
Review: although i like fictions, i liked this book.
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Summary: Absolutely THE BEST
Review: I've read hundreds of WWII first-person accounts and this book stands head and shoulders above them all. You've never read a word about WWII until you've read this book.
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Summary: Like part of your family
Review: Stephen Ambrose's wonderful storytelling style brings home the true stories of the men of Easy Company in a compelling way. True heroes are ordinary people asked to do extraordinary things and Easy Company as well as all those who served in WWII were heroes.Brings about a greater appreciation for what was lost, and sacrificed for our freedom. A must read for history fans, and those who love stories about real life heroes. So compelling, it makes me want to visit with the veterans as a reunion!
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Summary: A Superficial and Unworthy Effort
Review: As a voracious reader of history I bought the book with great enthusiasm. I was disappointed. I found the book shallow and
tepid, so much so I found it hard to finish. Writing of one of the elite units in the US Army, Mr. Ambrose barely gets the
reader involved. His recounting of a heroic bayonet charge, or an assault down a fire swept causeway, gives the reader as much feeling for what it was like as me describing my breakfast with the phrase "I ate breakfast." His use of ridiculous comparisons and statistics is insulting to the rest of the dogfaces of the US Army. While the 101st made three combat jumps and spent time on the front intermitently broken by time in camp, other regular straight leg divisions never left the front. yet he goes on to say that the 180 combat days at the front put every man at risk of breakdown. Mr. Ambrose needs to read his sources better. It was CONTINUOUS time at the front that broke a man down. Curousing and drinking in England doesn't count. While I respect and admire the individuals and their heroic acts. Any of the referenced works in the reviewed book are more fitting tributes. Maybe the HBO treatment will do them better justice. The best treatment of war on a personal level is With The Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.
I give it one star and place it in the circular file.
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Summary: This is how unit histories should be written!
Review: Since reading Citizen Soldiers about a year ago, Stephen Ambrose has been one of my favorite military historians. Having read several different unit histories before, I found Band of Brothers a refreshing exception. Choosing more personal level instead of usual "platoon this did that while being supported by X squad" is an excellent way of telling about small unit actions. Ambrose follows 1944-1945 Screaming Eagles' European battles mainly through certain members of E company. He has chosen just the right level of telling their (E company's) story without writing too much about same person at a time or certain battle or other happening. While reading this book one finds out that these elite soldiers were just ordinary men with same problems all other people had at that time. This book isn't some serious tactical study but a true war story which has been told just like war stories should be told. Apart from this book I also highly recommend Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers and D-Day for all those who are interested about US Army in western Europe during later part of WW2.
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Summary: Fascinating and Captivating
Review: As an Army veteran myself, I was honored to be able to read of the dedication and commitment of the soldiers of Easy Company. There is no greater historian than Stephen Ambrose to pass this legacy along to the public. This book follows a historic path from Normandy to the present of these brave paratroopers.
Ambrose provides an insight of these men through intense research and in-depth interviews of those who lived it. This is made even more difficult by the fact that this is a generation who served out of honor and duty and not for the glory that we have showered upon them. There was a spirit in the American of their era that lacks in the majority of eligible soldiers today. We can all learn a lesson in bravery and dedication from these men and this book provides a window to them that many cannot understand and can only sit back and marvel at what drove the men of Easy Company.
Those of us who haver served since and those who serve today can only hope to live up to the standard set by these men. Ambrose has put together a captivating record of their accomplishments and ensures that the generation of today continue to recall the men of Currahee. I salute them.
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Summary: Indispensible companion to the miniseries.
Review: Notwithstanding the wonderful HBO miniseries based on this book, "Band of Brothers" is an entertaining and worthwhile read in its own right. Ambrose skilly fully weaves personal accounts from the paratroopers of E Company into a compelling story of the war in the European theater. Ambrose has earned his stripes as one of the premier historians of World War II, and with good reason. His writing style is easy to read, he does a great job of individualizing the large cast of characters and he masterfully sets his story within the context of the greater conflict without distracting the reader. All this makes the book essential reading for those watching the HBO miniseries. The miniseries is great cinema, but the medium is necessarily limited in how much background it can bring to each episode. After the first few episodes I started reading the book along with the show, and it helped me in distinguish the characters and orient what was happening. Also, the book gives you a greater understanding of why certain objectives were so critical to the war effort. When I've read the part of the book that corresponds to a new episode, I get to focus on the performances and visual aspects of the show. Reading the book only enhances the experience of watching the miniseries.
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Summary: Good but not perfect
Review: Like just about everybody else who read this book, I did it in anticipation of the HBO miniseries, and was not dissappointed. Ambrose is a wonderful writer, capable of conveying his meaning in a terse, informative style, and his use of multiple perspectives and points of view from the various surviving men of Company E is wonderful. However, the book is not as good as it could have been. His research is sometimes sloppy. The lack of decent maps is appalling and really is my biggest complaint. If SLA Marshall (rather heavily criticized in the book, by Winters, at least) had written it would have contained dozens of illustrations and maps. The book has three, and they're not all that useful. Since the author only cites a half dozen books (not even the official history - Cross-Channel Attack) and relies largely on oral history, the book sometimes reads like a long college term paper. For example, he says that some captured German soldiers claimed they were really Polish, but did not bother to find out whether they were or not. Anyway, this is a good book about WWII and should be read by everybody interested in the subject, but not perfect.
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