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Winters' memoir, based on his wartime diary, includes the untold
stories of his comrades--the Band of Brothers who suffered 150
percent casualties while liberating Europe.
Winters' memoir, based on his wartime diary, includes the untold
stories of his comrades--the Band of Brothers who suffered
unimaginable casualties while liberating Europe.
They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.
Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties
while liberating Europe--an unparalleled record of bravery under
fire. Dick Winters was their commander--"the best combat leader in
World War II" to his men. This is his story--told in his own words
for the first time.
On D-Day, Dick Winters parachuted into France and assumed
leadership of the Band of Brothers when their commander was killed.
He led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany, by
which time each member had been wounded. They liberated an S.S.
death camp from the horrors of the Holocaust and captured
Berchtesgaden, Hitler's alpine retreat. After briefly serving
during the Korean War, Winters was a highly successful businessman.
Made famous by Stephen Ambrose's book Band of Brothers--and the
subsequent award-winning HBO miniseries--he is the object of
worldwide adulation.
Beyond Band of Brothers is Winters's memoir--based on his wartime
diary--but it also includes his comrades' untold stories. Virtually
all this material is being released for the first time. Only
Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the
war's end. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, only he could
pen this moving tribute to the human spirit.
On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry
Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France.
Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to
secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to
get off the beaches and reach the solid ground of Normandy. The
plane carrying many of the commanding officers was shot down,
leaving Dick Winters suddenly in command of his company. But during
the drop he, and many of his men, had been separated from his
equipment and was unarmed except for a trench knife. In this
remarkable World War 2 memoir, Dick Winters tells the tales left
untold by Stephen Ambrose in his 1992 epic Band of Brothers.
Starting with an account of the gruelling training designed to make
the 506th the most elite unit in the US Army, Beyond Band of
Brothers is fascinating account of one man's experience of
commanding Easy Company from D-Day, to the Battle of the Bulge and
into Germany. Dick Winters gives real insight into leadership under
the most difficult conditions - every man in the company had been
injured by the time they reached Germany - and tells the real story
of the Allies' final defeat of Hitler, from the point of view of
someone who was really there.
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