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Description
From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty , comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers . They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on DDay and, later, Operation Market Garden.... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“What's going to happen is going to happen. Forget about yesterday, don't think about tomorrow, get through today.”
Clancy Lyall -
“If you keep at your goal and don't swerve from that focus, you will succeed. Persistance is a tremendous quality...”
Ed Tipper -
“"If you ask me, the Brits were brave as hell but silly as shit". Comment about the British drinking tea every day at 10, 14 and 16 in the middle of battle.”
Clancy Lyall -
“Determination is the answer”
Colonel Sink or Captain Sobel or Major Winters -
“You don't need to worry about dying. You may go home and sit in a chair and die that way. We all die. But everybody has somehing to do before being taken. You do that.”
Chaplain to Clancy Lyall
First Sentence
Someone had driven a bulldozer up the side of Mount Currahee, the three-and-a-half-mile-long incline at Camp Toccoa, Georgia.
Table of Contents
Preface
Perspective
1. A future that nobody could prepare us for
2. Young Lions, east
3. Young Lions, west
4. The day everything changed
5. Cutting teeth at Toccoa
6. How the rest of us trained
7. Aboard the Samaria, Toccoa men
8. Atlantic crossings, replacements
9. Aldbourne: calm before the storm
10. A bad day for a lot of young men
11. Fighting in Normandy
12. The battle of Carentan
13. R & R in England
14. The fight of our lives in Holland
15. Defending the island
16. Respite in Mourmelon
17. Frozen hell
18. Blood
19. Enemy across the river
20. Meeting a defeated Aggressor
21. Toasting Victory
22. Last duties in Austria
23. Coming home
24. Lives in freedom
25. Thoughts on heroism
Epilogue: Those who have been given much
Memories of my father:
Herbert Sobel
Robert Burr Smith
George Luz Sr.
Appendices
Index
Errata
p. 272
Victory day in Europe was not April 8, 1945 but May 8, 1945.
And Easy Company went to Kaprun May 6-10, 1945 and not April 6-10, 1945.
Authors & Contributors
- Marcus Brotherton (Author)
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