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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

作者简介

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。

精彩摘录

在连队中，医护兵是最受欢迎、最受尊敬、最受刺激的人。他们的武器是急救箱，在前线哪有人喊受伤哪儿就有他们。福利中尉对医护兵尤金·罗伊赞赏有加：“哪儿需要他，哪儿就有他，你经常不知道他是怎么到那儿的。他的勇敢、他对伤员的英勇救护从未得到承认。在一次激烈的交战中他的事迹尤为突出，之后我就推荐他获得银质奖章。可能我用词不妥，也许戴克中尉不同意，或者被上面的什么人搁在了一边，我不知道。我只知道如果有士兵冒着严寒，在冰天雪地里战斗，在枪林弹雨的旷野和森林里穿梭，应该获得一枚奖章的话，那他一定是我们的医护兵尤金·罗伊。”

——引自章节：第十一章“他们把我们包围了——这帮该死的混蛋。”

E连进入卡朗唐以南的防御阵地。第二天没有什么大的动静。有个人沿藩篱走过来，要见唐。马拉其和沃伦。穆克。这个人是弗里茨。尼兰德。他找了穆克，跟他谈了谈；他找到马拉其的时候，只剩下说一声再见的时间了。他将飞回美国。尼兰德走了几分钟之后，穆克去找马拉其，“他皱着眉头，往日脸上那爱尔兰人顽皮的微笑消失了。”他问马拉其，尼兰德跟他解释为什么回国的原因了没有。马拉其说没有，然后把事情说给他听了。就在前一天，尼兰德到82师去见了他哥哥鲍勃。鲍勃在伦敦遇到马拉其的时候曾经说过，如果他想成为英雄，德国人很快就会成全他，当时马拉其得出的结论就是他已经失去了勇气。弗里茨。尼兰德刚刚得到消息，他哥哥在D日那天阵亡了。鲍勃的排陷入了包围，他用一挺机枪对敌人进行骚扰扫射，直到全排冲出包围圈。他打完了机枪子弹，最后牺牲在战场上。弗里茨。尼兰德随后搭一辆便车来到第4步兵师的阵地，去见他在那个师里当排长的哥哥。这个哥哥也在D日那天在犹他海滩阵亡了。等弗里茨回到E连的时候，弗朗西斯。桑普森神父正在到处找他，告诉他说，他有个在中国-缅甸—印度战区当飞行员的哥哥也在这个星期阵亡了。他现在是家里唯一活着的儿子了。陆军决定尽快地把他从作战地区撤出。弗里茨的母亲同一天收到了陆军部的3份阵亡通知电报。桑普森神父把弗里茨送到犹他海滩。他搭乘一架飞机去了英国，踏上回美国的旅途。

——引自第110页