The majority of the book takes place after D-Day as Easy Company engages in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany, and indeed those were the hardest battles that were fought. This is Dick Winters’ very personal auto-biographical account of who he was, how he became a soldier, then an officer, how Easy Company trained in the US and then in the UK, and fought its way through Europe, from D-Day to VE Day. Summary in 4 sentences: This is the back story behind the well known book Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose, and the HBO mini-series based on it – in which Dick Winters was one of the lead characters. This book gets very high marks from all I know who’ve read it. I was interested reading his perspective on his actions. Dick Winters is clearly the hero of the book and the TV series. Why this book: I had read Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, and have seen a few parts of the HBO series.
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