Band of Brothers (兄弟连)
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基本信息·出版社：Sunon & Schuster
·页码：336 页
·出版日期：2001年
·ISBN：074322454X
·条形码：9780743224543
·包装版本：2001-09-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：0开
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内容简介Through soldiers' journals and letters, describes Easy Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe and recounts their stories of survival.
Amazon.co.uk Review
As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band of Brothers to tell the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from gruelling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas", on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest", where they drank the his (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Robert Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic CO who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral. The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a GI by his CO for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle". --Tim Appelo
Amazon.com Audibook Review
The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose's tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Lou Schuler
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 234 Width (mm) 157
作者简介Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrose, Ph.D. (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.Ambrose wrote a highly regarded three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, also generally positive, but his Band of Brothers (1993) and D-Day (1994), about the lives and fates of individual soldiers in the World War II invasion catapulted him out of the ranks of academic history and into best-sellerdom. The mini-series 'Band of Brothers' (2001) lionized American troops and helped sustain the fresh interest in WWII that was stimulated by the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994, and the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004
媒体推荐Customer Reviews
1.Great read through an amazing era of military history..., 21 Jul 2006
Reviewer: Iceni Peasant (Norfolk, England)
If you are not accustomed to reading books concerning military history and/or are not familiar with this stage of World War II, I'd highly recommend that you watch the BBC/HBO series first. It's very accurate to what is written in the book with good character acting to the main guys involved in Easy Company, 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne.
The book is well written, with Ambrose setting out the events of each day/engagement/battle/incident, and then using quotes and excerpts from other books and memoirs to illustrate how it was for the actual men in those incidents. A lot of the quotes are directly from interviews the author had with the various enlisted men and officers who took part in D-Day and beyond. It is stated towards the end of the book that Ambrose was in constant contact with the veterans of Easy Company and showed them drafts of the book to make comments and corrections on. So this book is pretty much the definitive history of Easy Company's part in World War II, from the birth of the company to through D-Day and then duties of Occupation in Germany etc.
The book loses one star for these down points:
It IS hard not to be in awe of what Easy Company and all the 101st achieved, but in one or two places, objectivity would have been prefered to all out adoration. If you are a Brit and have any soft spot for the achievements of the British contribution to the Allied advance in 1944, be prepared for the author to spurt out the odd punch to British forces. In a lot of places he seems to suggest that the British were blind, ignorant, and badly trained buffoons; and takes one or two unprofessional incidents to act as a general overview of British standards.
The minor sour grapes accepted, this is still a fantastic book, and there will be something on every page that will make you smile, or shock, or bring you close to tears. Every World War II enthusiast and history fan should read this book!
2.A Wonderful Book of Men at War, 24 Mar 2005
Reviewer: "jss1361"
Highly recommended work by the late Stephen Ambrose, who spent several years interviewing the men of one company and tells the story, though them of their time together, from initial training through the final weeks of the war. Absolutely essential reading for any military buff, and the DVD is stunning, as well.
编辑推荐历史上的“兄弟连”是二战时美国101空降师506团E连，是美军进行快速部署和实施应急作战的重要力量。
在世纪之交，曾为E连最年轻士兵的莱斯特在把自己作为盟军在诺曼底的登陆先锋的难忘经历和兄弟连战友血泪凝结的珍贵回忆告诉了著名的二战史专家安布罗斯。在对E连的幸存者进行了大量访谈，并参考了当年战士的日记和家书后，安布罗斯以《兄弟连》一书记录了这支英勇善战的无畏团队的真实故事。
目录
Foreword
CHAPTER ONE "We Wanted Those Wings"; Camp Toccoa,July-December 1942
CHAPTER TWO "Stand Up and Hook Up"; Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks, December 1942-September 1943
CHAPTER THREE "Duties f the Latrine Orderly"; Aldbourne, September 1943-March 1944
CHAPTER FOUR "Look Out Hiter! Here We Come"
CHAPTER FIVE "Follow Me"; Normandy, June 6, 1944
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BENNING WAS，if possible，even more miserable than Tccoca，especially its infamous Frying Pan area，
where the jump training went on．This was the regimental bivouac area，consistingof scrubby little
wooden huts set on barren, sandy soil. But Benning was a welcome relief to the men of E Company in
the sense that they were getting realistic training for becoming paratroopers rather than spending
most of their waking hours doing physical exercises.
Parachute school was supposed to begin with physical training (A stage), followed by B, C, and D
stages, each lasting a week, but the 506th skipped A stage. This happened because the lst Battalion
arrived ahead of the others, Went into A stage, and embarrassed the jump school sergeants who were
assigned to lead the calisthenics and runs. The Toccoa graduates would laugh at the sergeants. On
the runs they would begin running backward, challenge the sergeants to a race, ask them--after a
couple of hours of exercises that left the sergeants panting--when they were going to get past the
warm-up and into the real thing. After two days of such abuse, the sergeants told the C.O. that the
506th was in much better physical condition than they were, so all the companies of ……
