Book Review: Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose was born in 1936. He grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Ambrose has two brothers named Harry and Bill. Harry is two years older and Bill is two years younger. Ambrose's father was a navy doctor in the Pacific. His mother worked in a Pea Cannery. Ambrose has a wife named Moira Buckley Ambrose. They both have five kids. Ambrose went to the University of Wisconsin. He started as a premed but then switched to American History. Through the years of 1960 - 1995 he was a full-time professor at the University of New Orleans, Rutgers, Kansas State, Naval War College, and U.C. Berkeley. Ambrose wrote a book on the biography of Eisenhower because Eisenhower asked him to become his biographer. After all his wonderful work as a professor and writer, Ambrose retired on May of 1995. I do think Ambrose was qualified to write this book. He was around when the war occurred and he majored in American History. The book is about the horrifying history of Easy Company. Easy Company contained 147 members. The book takes us along Easy Company's trip from their difficult training to Utah Beach on D-Day. In the beginning, the book takes us through the fo
Sources The author's sources were mainly the surviving men from Easy Company. Structure The structure of the book is logical. At first I said to myself "Oh no I saw this on television now I have to read it!" But as I went reading through I could not put the book down. These men are known as the American heroes to all. At the end of the book it has an index. He went into business by selling and buying oil leases. After Normandy, then came the siege of Bastogne. The Company going into Normandy until Germany. Most of them went to universities to earn their degree. He made their training seem long and tough. This book was written so that it could be passed on forever. He wants every American to be proud of the heroic men from Easy Company. Another session where he recorded some of the men was at his own home. They also learned how to take the weapons apart and put them back together. Objectives Mainly, the author's purpose was to write a great novel about the men of Easy Company.
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