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![]() ![]() ![]() Ambrose's writing style has all the elegance of a Sherman tank, but it really doesn't matter: the story of this company is riveting. Ambrose traces how the group's esprit de corps was molded in boot camp under a martinet commander, then at Normandy's Utah Beach, in the disappointing Arnhem campaign in the Netherlands, in the Battle of the Bulge, and in the triumphant liberation of Hitler's Bavarian lair. confident survivors of a grueling physical regimen, adept in the use of weapons, and ready to fight for each other to the death. One unit in the "Screaming Eagles," Easy Company, was an elite group of paratroopers, self. ![]() The 101st Airborne was "the most famous and admired of all the eighty-nine divisions the United States Army put in the Second World War," Ambrose notes. of New Orleans) returns to military affairs (Pegasus Bridge, 1985, etc.) with this spirited account of one of the Army's crack WW II units. With his multivolume biographies of Eisenhower and Nixon now complete, Ambrose (History/Univ. ![]()
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