Winters sounds to me like an outstanding indivicual - I have had the pleasure of meeting a few and would follow them to the end of the world. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? Have you listened to any of Tim Jerome’s other performances? How does this one compare? You need only to look at the recruits that came after to prove this and this is the same for all organisations under pressure. Sick to death of the American ‘limey bashing) i am sure if 1 - 6 Airborne had the amount of time to train as E Coy had they I think we would be writing about them (and perhaps should be).
The building of a cohesive unit and the value placed on training and preperation prior to battle. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? Would you consider the audio edition of Band of Brothers to be better than the print version?
It's a gripping story of morals, courage, heroism and sacrificie that sounds cliched until you listen to their story. Then there is the dichotomy of war where US E Company soldiers found that it was the Germans that they most related to in terms of their civil values. There's also the dichotomy of belonging to the forces where the most hated person to command them was also their biggest asset in terms of bringing them together as a unit. The story is very US-centric as it should be given the company it it follows, but underneath it all is the idea of voluntary sacrifice for a larger cause. I find it particularly poignant to listen to this audiobook around Christmas mainly because I like to relate to their time in Bastogne during Christmas 1944 in some small way.
This audiobook has been an absolute favourite of mine and I have listened to it at least once a year ever since first downloading it. I came to the original story of Easy Company after watching the HBO TV miniseries of the same name.
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