Band of Brothers

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Through soldiers' journals and letters, describes Easy Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe and recounts their stories of survival.

Amazon.co.uk Review

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

Amazon.com Audibook Review

The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose's tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Lou Schuler

Book Dimension　

Height (mm) 234 　　　　　Width (mm) 157

斯蒂芬·E．安布罗斯生于1936年，在威斯康星州怀特沃特长大。1960年，安布罗斯开始在新奥尔良大学任教，并着手撰写一本名为《责任、荣誉、国家》的西点军校史。他28岁时，艾森豪威尔总统请他为自己写传。

自那时以来，安布罗斯已经出版了二十多本书。其中的《D日——1944年6月6日》、《不屈不挠的意志》，《世上独一无二))被《纽约时报》列为畅销书。他担任过斯皮尔伯格的影片《拯救大兵瑞恩))的历史顾问，还参加了许多美国全国性电视节目的工作，包括由历史频道和国家地理频道制作的节目，并参与了HBO史诗性连续剧《兄弟连》的制作。

安布罗斯曾任位于新奥尔良的艾森豪威尔中心荣誉主任、《军事史学季刊》主笔、“美国河流”理事会成员、并且是“国家D日博物馆”的创建者。2002年10月13日因肺癌逝世，享年66岁。