Band Of Brothers

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Summary: Best book i ever read
Review: Stephen E. Ambrose successfully captured the moments of the 101st airbourne division. This book was dedicated to the soldiers who gave their lives during world war 2, It followed the Footsteps of Easy company, 506th regiment, 101st airbourne, or the screaming eagles, they were a top parachute regiment, men of easy company had their toughest experience in their lives. They first met as a group in Camp Toccoa,in geworgia. They all came from different places and backrounds but one goal to serve their country patriotically, they later were sent to Europe to fight the evil empire, the "nazi's" or the germans. They parachuted through the skys of Normandy,the fought against time in Holland, They were freezing in their foxholes in bastogne ,they fought bravely as a group. They had heavy casualties. Brothers and friends were lost. They somehow survived through the harshest times of wasr and came out strong and on top. It was becasue of these herosism things and that easy company did that made them trust their brother soldiers and later they would come together and be called the Band of Brothers.
The book is based on individual stories told by different people in Easy Company, the most respected and remarkable person in the book was lutinant Winters who successfully led the men of easy company to many great victories and came out on top, and Winters thanked him for that with their braveness and herosism throiught world war 2. Band of brothers was formed from the Book By stephen E. ambrose and was turned into a 10 part mini-series by Stephen Speilberg and Tom Hanks.After the first few episodes I started reading the book along with the movie there was 2 parts each week all an hour in length so it gave me time to read the book, and it helped me the characters and orient what was happening. Also, the book gives you a greater understanding of why certain things and missions were so important in the war When every chapter i read and every part of the series i watched it was a new experience to me.
This 10 part mini series starts from training in Georgia to D-Day in Noprmandy to finding Hitlers "eagles Nest" in the mother land in the mountains.with this in mind readers should deffinitally like this book and readers should accept that this book was a true story and should respect what these men of easy company did for our country and save us from hitlers reign.After seeing the series and reading the book, you can't help but stand in awe of these men. Every day citizens were turned into incredible soldiers. They came from nowhere, saved the world, and then went home again. In these days we have to have a pefessional army who has to train vigiriously to fight our battles, it is difficult to imagine anything like this. I highly recommened this to book to anyonw who doesn't get the visual concept of the war and what these men witnessed and went throught and they should be more respected other than a medal on their chest.
I recommened this book absolutly, i loved it !!!


Kyle Kells


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Summary: The Unforgettable story of The men of Easy Company
Review: 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: Small Unit History
Review: Ambrose does a great job of conveying the experience of a single company of the 101st Airborne, from its organization and training in North Carolina all the way through Normanday and to the end of the war. Along the way Ambrose teaches several lessons about training and operating an airborne unit on a squad, platoon and company level. Some of these guys were simply studs, some were lucky and many, many were unlucky and wound up dead or maimed. This small unit focus allows the reader to truly care for the individual soldier, but Ambrose manages to do this without sentimentality or over-dramatizing. But, similar to Ambrose's other oral history books (D-Day, Citizen Soldiers, Pegasus Bridge), these stories are often told with a lack of larger context or meaning. That was the experience of the individual paratroopers that this book is about. They sweat on the training field and bled on the battle field, and they fought primary for themselves. There is no psychoanalyzing the bond between these brothers in arms, but Ambrose shows us how real it it is. Perhaps the ultimate lesson of this book is that wars are won by the courage and determination of small units like Easy Company. For answering the call the duty, we owe them a debt, but they will never call it in. They fought for each other.