Major Dick Winters Attitudes Towards World War II
A comparison between the attitudes of soldiers from USA, Russia and Germany towards World War II.
World War II was the biggest single event in terms of loss of life and property. This research focuses on the attitudes of soldiers who fought in this war. The objective of the research is to find out whether the ideology of the nation affects the attitude of a soldier in action towards the war. The sources of the research will be mainly 3 autobiographical memoirs, one from a soldier who fought in World War II from each country. The three ideologies under question will be Capitalism, Communism and Nazism. The research will focus on a formalistic approach reading just the text and removing all the media portrayals of any armies from the mind while …show more content…
He was deployed in the Easy Company as an NCO and rapidly earned promotions to reach the post of Major by the end of the War. Winters’ Easy Company was a Parachute regiment that was dropped behind enemy lines during the Invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces at St. Mere-Eglise. His autobiography “Beyond the Band of Brothers” focuses on the experiences of Major winters through the entire war, starting at the Invasion of Normandy and ending in Germany. Major Winters an exceptional leader rises through the ranks not with the intention to earn medals but with the intention to lead Easy Company out of the Hell they were posted in without the least number of casualties. Major Winters was nonetheless awarded the ‘Purple heart’, ‘Parachutist badge’ among other honours. The book talks about how each of the members of the Easy Company helped each other during the War which took them through unforgiving conditions. This memoir is quite an accurate account of the War as has been confirmed by several other soldiers who were present at that time at the same place, but it has its limitations in the fact that it is the publication of the Victor nation and can afford …show more content…
A reading of The Forgotten Soldier shows us the human aspect of the German army. This army was also affected by the atrocities of war and it was fighting as all the other armies for the pride and interests of its fatherland.
Although this study specifically chooses a topic that is available within the 3 main books it has some limitations. (i) Absence of enough English literature from the Russian and German sides. (ii) Geographical distance of the researcher from the nations under study. (iii) Absence of any personal interview sources to the researcher. (iv) Possible bias in Autobiographical
World War II was the biggest single event in terms of loss of life and property. This research focuses on the attitudes of soldiers who fought in this war. The objective of the research is to find out whether the ideology of the nation affects the attitude of a soldier in action towards the war. The sources of the research will be mainly 3 autobiographical memoirs, one from a soldier who fought in World War II from each country. The three ideologies under question will be Capitalism, Communism and Nazism. The research will focus on a formalistic approach reading just the text and removing all the media portrayals of any armies from the mind while …show more content…
He was deployed in the Easy Company as an NCO and rapidly earned promotions to reach the post of Major by the end of the War. Winters’ Easy Company was a Parachute regiment that was dropped behind enemy lines during the Invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces at St. Mere-Eglise. His autobiography “Beyond the Band of Brothers” focuses on the experiences of Major winters through the entire war, starting at the Invasion of Normandy and ending in Germany. Major Winters an exceptional leader rises through the ranks not with the intention to earn medals but with the intention to lead Easy Company out of the Hell they were posted in without the least number of casualties. Major Winters was nonetheless awarded the ‘Purple heart’, ‘Parachutist badge’ among other honours. The book talks about how each of the members of the Easy Company helped each other during the War which took them through unforgiving conditions. This memoir is quite an accurate account of the War as has been confirmed by several other soldiers who were present at that time at the same place, but it has its limitations in the fact that it is the publication of the Victor nation and can afford …show more content…
A reading of The Forgotten Soldier shows us the human aspect of the German army. This army was also affected by the atrocities of war and it was fighting as all the other armies for the pride and interests of its fatherland.
Although this study specifically chooses a topic that is available within the 3 main books it has some limitations. (i) Absence of enough English literature from the Russian and German sides. (ii) Geographical distance of the researcher from the nations under study. (iii) Absence of any personal interview sources to the researcher. (iv) Possible bias in Autobiographical