Band Of Brothers

ISBN: 0743429907
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Description:
As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band of Brothers to tell 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 gruelling 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 his (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 Robert Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic CO 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. 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 GI by his CO for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle". --Tim Appelo

Pages: 331
Format: Paperback
Genre: Military
Rating: Not yet rated

Listed Copies of this Book

Details	Price	See More	Buy
Condition: Normal Seller: trex170104 (No ratings yet)	£1.50 £3.13 (inc p&p)

Some Other Books by this Author

The Wild Blue: The Men And Boys Who Flew The B-24s Over GermanyThis title describes how the United States Air Force recruited, trained and then chose the few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in WWII. These were the boys turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators...
No. of listed copies: 1
D-day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle Of World War Ii"It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cyni...
No. of listed copies: 1
Pegasus Bridge: D-day - The Daring British Airborne RaidIn the early hours of 6th June 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defence forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, ...
No. of listed copies: 1

see all books for Stephen E. Ambrose

Other Books in this Genre

Stealth Bomber: Invisible Warplane Black Budget by Bill Sweetman
Stealth bomber
No. of listed copies: 1
The International Military Collectors Guide by Gary Sterne and Irene Moore
A visual guide to military items available to collectors around the world. It shows items actually on sale at ...
No. of listed copies: 0
Nowhere To Run: The Wilderness, May 4th & 5th, 1864 (nowhere To Run) by John Michael Priest
Nowhere to Run: The Wilderness, May 4th & 5th, 1864 (Nowhere to Run) (Hardcover)
No. of listed copies: 1
The Falklands: The Aftermath by Various Contributors
When the Union Jack was raised at Port Stanley in July 1982 it may have been the end of the Falklands war, but...
No. of listed copies: 1
Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle Of The Civil War And The Men Wh by William Garrett Piston, Richard W. Hatcher and Richard W. Hatcher Iii
In this narrative and analysis of Wilson's Creek, considered the second major battle of the American Civil War...
No. of listed copies: 1

See all listings in Military

REVIEWS

This book has not yet been rated