But in training and combat they learned selflessness and found the closest brotherhood they ever knew. They drank too much French wine, looted too many German cameras and watches, and fought too often with other GIs. They were rough-and-ready guys, battered by the Depression, mistrustful and suspicious.

Finally, they captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost, his Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach they parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign they were the Battered Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne, brought in to hold the line, although surrounded, in the Battle of the Bulge and then they spearheaded the counteroffensive. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. And at its peak-in Holland and the Ardennes-Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world.įrom the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy.

Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments.

Band of brother