Band of Brothers follows Easy Company of the 506th regiment of the 101st airborne from basic training to Hitler’s Eagles nest. The men of easy Company perform admirably and supremely through every grim task given to them. Stephen Ambrose accounts the heroic tale of the paratroopers from Easy Company beginning with their time training in Toccoa with Sobels to D-Day, Holland, Battle of the Bulge, the failure of operation Market Garden, and to the end of the war by taking Hitler’s Eagles nest. The men of Easy Company exceed all expectation put on them with all while forming an unbreakable bond. Band of Brothers is a book that entertains both military enthusiast and history aficionados alike. Stephen Ambrose a former history professor was nothing but a military history buff. By the time Ambrose had written Band of Brothers he already had a mountain of history and military books
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The men of Easy Company form an untouchable bond in training. The men of Easy Company all had a common enemy in Captain Herbert Sobels before the war even began. Their mutual hatred for Sobels and there hours of training helped form an unbreakable bond between these men before they even left American soil. They could tell each other apart in pitch black by the way someone coughed or the way their silhouette moved. Easy company was prepared to live, fight, and die for the man next to him without a second thought.
One of the aspects of this book that I did not like was the constant military jargon. There were many times where I would have to stop and look up specific words to see if it was referring to a location, weapon, person, or military phrase. As someone who has never been or spent a lot of time around people in the military I found it difficult to figure out the rank and what things like “506th regiment” were really refereeing to. I felt this story would have been easier to follow if I had a better understanding of the
The men of Easy Company form an untouchable bond in training. The men of Easy Company all had a common enemy in Captain Herbert Sobels before the war even began. Their mutual hatred for Sobels and there hours of training helped form an unbreakable bond between these men before they even left American soil. They could tell each other apart in pitch black by the way someone coughed or the way their silhouette moved. Easy company was prepared to live, fight, and die for the man next to him without a second thought.
One of the aspects of this book that I did not like was the constant military jargon. There were many times where I would have to stop and look up specific words to see if it was referring to a location, weapon, person, or military phrase. As someone who has never been or spent a lot of time around people in the military I found it difficult to figure out the rank and what things like “506th regiment” were really refereeing to. I felt this story would have been easier to follow if I had a better understanding of the