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band of brothers e company 506th regiment 101st airborne from normandy to hitlers eagles nest
as good a rifle company as any in the world easy company 506th airborne division u.s. army kept getting the tough assignments responsible for everything from parachuting into france early d day morning to the capture of hitlers eagles nest at berchtesgaden . in band of brothers ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought went hungry froze and died a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the purple heart a badge of office . drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers journals and letters stephen ambrose recounts the stories often in the mens own words of these american heroes .
through soldiers journals and letters describes easy companys contributions to the campaigns in western europe and recounts their stories of survival .