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Summary: A must read for baby boomers to understand our fathers
Review: Ambrose tells history like a novelist and writes novels like an historian. Band of Brothers lets the reader feel what war is really like. Battles are personal events, something that news accounts or historical reviews do not convey. I have a much better understanding of the bonds that my father had with his WWII buddies. This book puts you so much into the minds of the men of Easy company that you can actually see the tracer bullets and hear the incoming shells. It presents the horror of war as something that the world should avoid, yet it also shows how the indominable spirit of ordinary citizens prevails even when faced with the possibility of instant death.
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Summary: Powerful
Review: Although the book loses its clarity at times(Ambrose seems to struggle with the Battle of the Bulge), the solid beginning and heart-warming end put this book on my must read list. Ambrose once again proves that he is the master of oral history, a strong writer who puts war, on both a strategic and personal level, into perspective. But the true strength of the book comes from its wonderful sense of chronology. As you follow the Company's triumphs and tragedies, from the training camp at Toccoa to the mountains of Austria, you form a strange bond between yourself and the men of Company E. Only at the end of the book, when a lonely soldier comments that he is the last member of the original company, did I appreciate its emotional influence.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read.
Review: This book is far and away the greatest book I've ever read. As a student of miltary history, I find this to be the best description of combat and it takes me as close to combat as I ever want to come.
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Summary: Band of Brothers and Private Ryan
Review: This remarkable book about Dick Winters and his men in Easy Company began when Stephen Ambrose, in doing research for his later book D Day, stumbled across Winters' files. Easy Company's narratives were so great, Ambrose stopped to write this book before going on to D Day and Citizen Soldiers--all great books in themselves. Readers of this book will find many potential sources for the characters and action found in Spielberg's Private Ryan. All who liked the movie should read it. It was significant and appropriate that Ambrose had Spielberg invite Dick Winters to the west coast premier of the motion picture. It is also significant that Dick Winters still lectures on leadership at such eminent places as West Point and USMC Headquarters at Quantico, VA. Without doubt, Band of Brothers will find its honored place in the archives of great war literature beside Red Badge of Courage and Grant's Memoirs.
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Summary: A gripping read
Review: The 506 regiment is the group to which "Private Ryan" in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" was attached. This book is spell-binding, exciting account of the 101st Airbourne's heroics in WWII. You'll learn the story of the real Private Ryan. If you liked the movie - you'll find this real life account even more fascinating
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Summary: Realistic View of the War of the Infantry
Review: Of the many books I have read on World War II this book comes closest to helping you feel what is was like to be in the infantry in Europe. There is no glory here, just the story of ordinary men trying to survive. My uncles fought in Europe during the war but didn't want to talk about it. Thankfully, people like Ambrose are passionate about saving theses personal stories for history.
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Summary: Band of Brothers review
Review: Ambrose is the ultimate storyteller. He follows E Company from airborne training under a petty, incompetant commanding officer through the misery, mud, snow, and blood in the European Theater of Operations, to post-war careers of some of the main participants (survivors). It is captivating from the first page. I also read Citizen Soldier and this book ranks well with that one.
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Summary: Excellent in depth review of the 101st Airborne in WWII
Review: This book, as I have come to expect from Ambrose, was another engrossing and descriptive account of WWII infantry combat. This book explores the ordeals of several colorful characters- some heroes, some some not. The mix of first hand accounts, quotes, and battle summaries provides for an interesting and informative book. Highly recommended for people interested in WWII, infantry combat, etc.
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Summary: Excellent. The human side of war.
Review: Very well written. Ambrose tells an absorbing tale of what the war was like to men who fought it. I could not put it down.
This book is a good compliment to Ambrose's "Citizen Soldiers." In that book, Ambrose takes a look at the condition of the G.I. in Europe as a whole. While offering interesting personal accounts, it is intended as a survey of all soldiers and as such is somewhat impersonal (although very good).
Band of Brothers, on the other hand, is intimate and personal. By following one command (E Co., 506 / 101st Airborne) across France and into Germany, we get to see a discrete group of soldiers adjust to changing conditions brought on by different seasons, terrain, offensive and defensive actions, their own increasing battle savvy and fatigue. I like this approach. By personalizing the experience of a few front-line soldiers, the impact on the reader is enhanced because one comes to know the characters. They are not just "some soldiers who experienced frost bite," they are individuals we've come to know who looked with the pride of conquerors as they stood in Hitler's Eagle's Nest, a fitting end to their fatigue, loss and heroics in liberating a continent.
This outfit in particular offers lots of adventure, which is I am sure why Ambrose chose them. Part of the 101st Airborne, E Co., was at Utah Beach, the Battle of Arnhem, the Battle of the Bulge, helped liberate a concentration camp in addition to securing Hitler's Bavarian retreat. As we get to know these Americans through their battles and experiences, we more fully appreciate how our "regular guys" helped conquer self-designed supermen bent on world domination.
This book moves very quickly, is highly entertaining and moving. Watch out, you may want to read this ground level WW II account in one sitting.
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Summary: Enthralling reading.
Review: What are the limits of man's endurance - who resists, who breaks? Stephen Ambrose's book takes the reader into World War II . We live, sleep, breathe, laugh with these GIs. We dislike some of them - emphathise with most, but, in closing the final page, know that we can never forget this "Band of Brothers".
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