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Band of Brothers E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments. They were responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells of the men of this brave unit who fought, went hungry, f...

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Main Author: Ambrose, Stephen E. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2017.
Edition:Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front.
United States. > Army. > Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th. > Company E > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Airborne troops.
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Summary:Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments. They were responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells of the men of this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, in a company that took 150 percent casualties and consider the Purple Heart a badge of office. -- adapted from back cover.
Physical Description:333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501179402
1501179403
Author Notes:Historian Stephen E. Ambrose grew up in Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Louisiana.

Ambrose is considered to be one of the foremost historical scholars of recent times and has been a professor for over three decades. He is also the founder and president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.

His works include D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest and Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. Abrose served historical consultant on the motion picture Saving Private Ryan.

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