Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose :: American History

Band of Brothers by Stephen AmbroseI. Authors Background Stephen Ambrose was born in 1936 and grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin, a scummy town where his father was the M.D. At the University of Wisconsin, he started as a pre-med, only if inspired by a great professor he changed his study to History. After getting his M.A. degree at Louisiana State University, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to complete a Ph.D. Ambrose began teaching at the University of New Orleans. He started as a Civil fight historian but changed to political narrative after President Eisenhower asked him to become his biographer. Since then, Ambrose has written more than twenty books. Among his high hat sellers are D-Day, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, Undaunted Courage and Nothing like it in the World. He was besides a consultant for Steven Spielbergs movie providence Private Ryan. He is a retired Professor of History. Ambrose is now the director of the Eisenhower have-to doe with in New O rleans and is the founder of the National D-Day Museum. He is also a contributing editor of the Quarterly Journal of Military History. II. abstraction Band of Brothers is a fascinating book that get hold ofs moments lived by soldiers during World War II. It specifically relates to the History of a small unit of paratroopers known as Easy Company, 506 Regiment, 101st Airborne. It is a story that follows the confederacy from its inception to the capture of Hitlers nest. It begins with the raising of these soldiers at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. The 140 members of easy company who were young men from different social levels were physically and mentally trained. This occurrence company had an extremely harsh training, but many believe it is because of this training that they were considered as one of the best rifle companies in the army. Their trainer was schoolmaster Sobel who they disliked but was later replaced with Lieutenant Winters. Two of the many things these soldiers wise(p) w ere brotherhood and leadership. The first drop done by the paratroopers was on June 6, 1944 in Normandy. This drop did not result as planned. Planes were flying at a high velocity and at a short distance from the ground. thusly one of the planes got hit. They arrived at Carentan which they captured and flew back to Aldbourne. Their second drop was on family 17, 1944 in Holland. This time it was perfectly done.