As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company,
506th 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'' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose
recounts the stories, often in the men''s own words, of these
American heroes.
目錄:
Foreword
CHAPTER ONE “We Wanted Those Wings”;Camp Toccoa
CHAPTER TWO “Stand Up and Hook Up and Hook
Up”;Benning,Mackall,Bragg,Shanks
CHAPTER THREE “Duties of the Latrine Orderly”
CHAPTER FOUR “Look Out Hitler!Here We Come!”
CHAPTER FIVE “Follow Me”
CHAPTER SIX “Move Out!”
CHAPTER SEVEN Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions
CHAPTER EIGHT “Hell''s Highway”
CHAPTER NINE The Island Holland
CHAPTER TEN Resting,Recovering,and Refitting
CHAPTER ELEVEN “They Got Us Surrounded-the Poor Bastards”
CHAPTER TWELVE The Breaking Point;Bastogne
CHAPTER THIRIEEN Attack Noville
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Patrol
CHAPTER FIFTEEN “The Best Feeling in the World”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Getting to Know the Enemy
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Drinking Hitler''s Champagne
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Soldier''s Dream Life
CHAPTER NINETEEN Postwar Careers
Acknowledgments and Sources
Index