ISBN: 0613501225

[SR: 6672074], Library Binding, [EAN: 9780613501224], Topeka Bindery, Topeka Bindery, Book, [PU: Topeka Bindery], Topeka Bindery, As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II hi… Plus…

[SR: 6672074], Library Binding, [EAN: 9780613501224], Topeka Bindery, Topeka Bindery, Book, [PU: Topeka Bindery], Topeka Bindery, 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, 10959971, Battles & Campaigns, 10960041, Alamein, 10960051, Arnhem, 10960071, Battle for Berlin, 10960021, Battle of Britain, 10960031, Battle of the Atlantic, 10960111, Battle of the Bulge, 10960061, Burma, 10959991, D-Day Landings, 10960001, Dunkirk, 10960121, Hurtgen Forest, 10960171, Iwo Jima, 10960091, Kursk, 10960101, Monte Cassino, 10959981, Pearl Harbour, 10960011, Stalingrad, 10960081, Tunis, 10959961, World War II 1939-1945, 771718, World History, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 10960881, Origins, 10959961, World War II 1939-1945, 771718, World History, 65, History, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

ISBN: 0613501225

Bibliothekseinband, [EAN: 9780613501224], Topeka Bindery, Topeka Bindery, Book, [PU: Topeka Bindery], Topeka Bindery, As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Step… Plus…

Bibliothekseinband, [EAN: 9780613501224], Topeka Bindery, Topeka Bindery, Book, [PU: Topeka Bindery], Topeka Bindery, 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, 65274011, 2. Weltkrieg, 65567011, Militär, 65140011, Geschichte, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

ISBN: 9780613501224

With the creative power of Hanks and Spielberg behind it, and a cast that features Donnie Wahlberg, David Schwimmer, and Ron Livingston, HBO's presentation of Band of Brothers is already … Plus…

With the creative power of Hanks and Spielberg behind it, and a cast that features Donnie Wahlberg, David Schwimmer, and Ron Livingston, HBO's presentation of Band of Brothers is already generating excitement in the entertainment press. Scheduled as a ten-week series, it will be backed by one of the largest promotional budgets in HBO history. The audience -- from military history buffs to veterans and their children and grandchildren -- is sure to want copies of this official tie-in book. Stephen E. Ambrose is contributing a new Foreword to his magnificent chronicle of the men of Easy Company from basic training to the dangerous parachute landings on D-Day, to the Battle of the Bulge and the triumphant capture of Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" in Berchtesgarden. A tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations, it brings to life, as only Stephen E. Ambrose can, the profound ties of brotherhood forged in the barracks and on the battlefields. Band of Brothers Ambrose, Stephen E., San Val<

ISBN: 0613501225

Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the … Plus…

Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company, which kept getting the tough assignments. Easy Company was responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. "Band of Brothers" is the account of the men of this remarkable unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualities and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose tell the stories -- often in the men's own words -- of these American hereoes. aviation,history,military,regiments,world war ii History, Turtleback Books<