Finally watched the show so got this audio book too
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Finally watched the show so got this audio book too
So I am a huge history nerd and my friend sent me this post the other day because she found the book that one of the men that the HBO show Band of Brothers portrays. I really like that show and it‘s amazing to find the book the real man wrote :) #nonfiction #bibliophile #booknerd #historynerd
pickThis is definitely an interesting read, especially for those wanting to have a little more insight on Easy Company after watching Band of Brothers or reading Stephen Ambrose‘s book. I found parts of it hard to read. Dick Winters is unquestionably a hero and should not be viewed as anything but, but the transparently false modesty was off-putting. 3 out of 5 stars.
There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.
Later we discovered Hitler had constructed six large “work camps” in the vicinity. By now the men and I were seasoned combat veterans, but the sights we witnessed when we arrived at the camp defied description. The horror of what we observed remains with each paratrooper to this day. You could not explain it; you could not describe it; and you could not exaggerate it.
1. Outlander - I read the first five books in three weeks so I could be ready for #6 when it came out. Result - years of insomnia! 😝
2. For Love of the Game with Kevin Costner. There is just something amazing about that man in a baseball uniform.
3. Frito scoops - they go with anything and are great plain. And they function as my favorite utensil. Don‘t a fork as long as I have a frito!
4. Tagging @Cinfhen @collegecatlady @BookaholicNatty
I made sure I took a trip to Barter Books when in Alnwick; it's a bookworms heaven!
Books picked up;
Parachute Infantry (David Kenyon Webster), Don't Blink (James Patterson), Beyond Black (Hilary Mantel) and collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Oh, this morning's Litsy lovefest has a theme. During the summer of 2012, I read almost nothing but WWII literature, and I binge-watched both "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" (and sobbed my way through both). Stephen Ambrose's book, which inspired the miniseries, reads as swiftly as any military fiction, but packs the emotional punch that only the true stories of real folks of The Greatest Generation can. #bandofbrothers #stephenambrose
