Nickname(s) Rod Name Roderick Strohl Rank Staff Sergeant | Years of service 1942-1945 Allegiance United States | |
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Born June 24, 1922 (age 102)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1922-06-24 ) Battles/wars World War II
Battle of Normandy
Operation Market Garden
Battle of the Bulge Battles and wars Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, World War II | ||
Service/branch United States Army |
Book review band of brothers by stephen e ambrose
Band of Brothers, subtitled, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, by Stephen E. Ambrose is an examination of a parachute infantry company in the 101st Airborne Division in the European Theater during World War II. While the book treats the flow of battle, it concentrates on the lives of the soldiers in and associated with the company.
Contents
History buffs band of brothers
Background
The book rests upon interviews Ambrose conducted with former members of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. The veterans were having a reunion at a hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana; the interviews were conducted as part of a project to collect oral histories of D-Day for the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. Ambrose was intrigued with the bond which had developed among the members of "Easy" company. He circulated his drafts among the surviving members of the company, asking for input, and then incorporating their ideas into later drafts. Ambrose said of the finished product, "we have come as close to the true story of Easy Company as possible."
Contents
The book consists of a foreword, epigraph and a maps section, followed by eighteen chapters. There is an afterward and a brief author's bio after the chapters.
Following the table of contents, the book's dedication reads:
To all those members of the Parachute Infantry
United States Army, 1941-1945
who wear the Purple Heart not as a decoration
but as a badge of office.
The epigraph is a quotation from Shakespeare's Henry V, from which the title of the book is derived:
From this day to the ending of the World,
...we in it shall be remembered
...we band of brothers.
The chapters are: