Band of Brothers Review
Band of Brothers
Ambrose, Stephen E. Band of Brothers. London: Chivers, 2003. Stephen Ambrose, known for his works as a historian and biographer, had a keen interest with World War II. His research led him to serve as the President of the National World War II museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, write many books detailing accounts of several divisions involved in World War II, and several biographies based on the lives of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Band of Brothers is the exhaustive work by Ambrose which contains first person accounts of soldiers who fought in the E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne of the United States Army. In this work, Ambrose chronologically records the recollections of several soldiers and writes about their times in the European leg of World War II starting from the training camp in Toccoa, Georgia, all the way to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden, Germany. In Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose means to inform those who read it about the remarkable adventures of one of the best divisions in the armed forces during World War II. Ambrose begins the book by mentioning that the men of Easy Company were from different backgrounds. Some of these soldiers were rich, some poor, and other variations of origin. The point of this is even though these men were different, they held a bond created from training and struggle which led them from basic training in Camp Toccoa in Georgia, to the end of World War II with the capture of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Many of the original 128 men in Easy Company perished along the way, but the survivors were known as heroes and became great friends with each other. These men had an ambition to be better than the ordinary soldier, and with the guarantee of fifty dollars extra pay, these men literally jumped at the opportunity to become one of the best divisions in the United States Army during World War II. In 1942, during training at Camp Toccoa, Easy Company was
Ambrose, Stephen E. Band of Brothers. London: Chivers, 2003. Stephen Ambrose, known for his works as a historian and biographer, had a keen interest with World War II. His research led him to serve as the President of the National World War II museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, write many books detailing accounts of several divisions involved in World War II, and several biographies based on the lives of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Band of Brothers is the exhaustive work by Ambrose which contains first person accounts of soldiers who fought in the E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne of the United States Army. In this work, Ambrose chronologically records the recollections of several soldiers and writes about their times in the European leg of World War II starting from the training camp in Toccoa, Georgia, all the way to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden, Germany. In Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose means to inform those who read it about the remarkable adventures of one of the best divisions in the armed forces during World War II. Ambrose begins the book by mentioning that the men of Easy Company were from different backgrounds. Some of these soldiers were rich, some poor, and other variations of origin. The point of this is even though these men were different, they held a bond created from training and struggle which led them from basic training in Camp Toccoa in Georgia, to the end of World War II with the capture of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Many of the original 128 men in Easy Company perished along the way, but the survivors were known as heroes and became great friends with each other. These men had an ambition to be better than the ordinary soldier, and with the guarantee of fifty dollars extra pay, these men literally jumped at the opportunity to become one of the best divisions in the United States Army during World War II. In 1942, during training at Camp Toccoa, Easy Company was