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1) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
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"Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak--in Holland and the Ardennes--Easy Company was as good a rifle company...
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David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a firsthand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland, here are acts of...
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On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company -- the now-legendary Band of Brothers -- from the chaos of the D-day invasion to the final capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest. But Winters' story didn't end there; it was only the beginning. He was a reluctant hero whose modesty and strength drew the admiration of millions. Now comes the story of Dick Winters in his last years as experienced by his friend Cole...
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Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance. His comrades called him "Killer." Of the elite paratroopers who served in the venerated "Band of Brothers" during the Second World War, none...
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They were the Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Army Airborne, the legendary fighting unit of World War II. And there was one man every soldier in Easy Company looked up to--Major Richard D. Winters. Here is the compelling story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero--from Winters's childhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, through the war years in which his natural skill as a leader elevated him through the ranks in combat, to now, decades...
10) A company of heroes: personal memories about the real band of brothers and the legacy they left us
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Interviews with the families of Albert Blithe, Gordon Carson, Burton "Pat" Christenson, Bill Evans, Tony Garcia. Walter "Smokey" Gordon, Herman "Hack" Hanson, Terrence "Salty" Harris, Frederick "Moose" Heyliger, Paul "Frenchy" Lamoureux, George Lavenson, Joe Liebgott, C. Carwood Lipton, Robert Marsh, Warren "Skip" Muck, Patrick O'Keefe, Alex Penkala, George Potter, Robert Rader, Mike Ranney, LaVon Reese, Eugene "Doc" Roe, Ron Speirs, Floyd Talbert,...