As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company,
506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough
assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into
France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest
at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in
this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company
that took 150 percent casualties 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
recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these
American heroes.
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