As good a rifle company as any in the world,Easy Company,101st 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'jounrnals and letters,Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories,often in the men's own words,of these-American heroes.\r\n\r\n作者简介:\r\n Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of Citizen Soldiers,Undanuted Courage,Comrades,The Wild Blue,and D-Day,as well as biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon.He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.He lives in Bay St.Louis,Mississippi,and Helena,Montana.
Foreword \r\nCHAPTER ONE “We Wanted Those Wings”;Camp Toccoa\r\nCHAPTER TWO “Stand Up and Hook Up and Hook Up”;Benning,Mackall,Bragg,Shanks\r\nCHAPTER THREE “Duties of the Latrine Orderly”\r\nCHAPTER FOUR “Look Out Hitler!Here We Come!”\r\nCHAPTER FIVE “Follow Me”\r\nCHAPTER SIX “Move Out!”\r\nCHAPTER SEVEN Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions\r\nCHAPTER EIGHT “Hell's Highway”\r\nCHAPTER NINE The Island Holland\r\nCHAPTER TEN Resting,Recovering,and Refitting\r\nCHAPTER ELEVEN “They Got Us Surrounded-the Poor Bastards”\r\nCHAPTER TWELVE The Breaking Point;Bastogne\r\nCHAPTER THIRIEEN Attack Noville\r\nCHAPTER FOURTEEN The Patrol\r\nCHAPTER FIFTEEN “The Best Feeling in the World”\r\nCHAPTER SIXTEEN Getting to Know the Enemy\r\nCHAPTER SEVENTEEN Drinking Hitler's Champagne\r\nCHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Soldier's Dream Life\r\nCHAPTER NINETEEN Postwar Careers\r\nAcknowledgments and Sources \r\nIndex
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