6/30/2023 0 Comments Ambrose band of brothers![]() ![]() Ambrose, using information gathered during interviews with some of the surviving members of E Company, begins by detailing the grueling training exercises and excessive discipline they endured under a captain they couldn’t stand and who probably would get them killed when they went into battle. I guess I just wasn’t ready to let the story of these brave men go, and I wanted to see how different the miniseries was from the book.īand of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest follows the men of Easy Company from when they were trained to be paratroopers at Camp Toccoa in 1942 until the company was disbanded in 1945 in the months following the end of World War II. I finally finished the Band of Brothers miniseries last month (it premiered several years ago on HBO right around the time we moved from CT to MD, and I missed some episodes in the shuffle so just stopped watching it), and I bought the book as soon as the credits started to roll. It’s not like civilian life, where sudden death is so unexpected.” In the heat of battle you expect casualties, you expect somebody to be killed and you are not surprised when a friend is machine-gunned in the face. I wish I could persuade you to regard death as casually as we do over here. If I don’t come back, try not to take it too hard. ![]() I do not think I shall live through the next jump. Webster’s attitude was, as he wrote his parents, “I am living on borrowed time. ![]()
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