Bury_Dave
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Thought I'd recommend a book I'm reading
http://www.amazon.com/Toccoa-Eagles...4791/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327067194&sr=8-1
It's a Septic's research to follow much more prescisely than the serial, the route taken by Easy Co. He walks the locations and gives very good descriptions of the battles and sites and adds much more to the bones of the story. He also has information and interviews regarding many who were not mentioned in the series but who were as, if not more, pivotal characters that the ones portrayed. There are two long chapters too on what the ones you know and the others did post WW2 - for example that 'Blithe' survived the war (contrary to the series saying he died in 1948) and stayed in the Airborne and made over 600 jumps before a premature death in 1967(?)
It's very good. Covering lots more than the rather bitty (but still excellently done) BoB serial.
The serial compressed some events into ones where they didn't occur . For example, Easy fought equally hard in other towns during the Bulge battles after Foye.
I've never been 100% comfortable that Winters made contact with Ambrose to get the book written and I am no fan of Ambrose with all his errors in his books and an unwillingness to correct them, his plagiarism and his hatred of all things British (apart from the OBLI Pegasus landing), however, I see Easy Co as symbolic of all the men who fought rather than beign the best of the best as they have been labelled.
Regardless, it is a very good book and with a map and goole earth, you can really get a feel for what happened and to whom and where.
I am tempted to use this and the 'In The Footsteps of Band of Brothers' book to set out a Garmin route and try it out when i go on tour in May/June this year. If it works well, I'll do a trip report and make the route available.
Dave
http://www.amazon.com/Toccoa-Eagles...4791/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327067194&sr=8-1
It's a Septic's research to follow much more prescisely than the serial, the route taken by Easy Co. He walks the locations and gives very good descriptions of the battles and sites and adds much more to the bones of the story. He also has information and interviews regarding many who were not mentioned in the series but who were as, if not more, pivotal characters that the ones portrayed. There are two long chapters too on what the ones you know and the others did post WW2 - for example that 'Blithe' survived the war (contrary to the series saying he died in 1948) and stayed in the Airborne and made over 600 jumps before a premature death in 1967(?)
It's very good. Covering lots more than the rather bitty (but still excellently done) BoB serial.
The serial compressed some events into ones where they didn't occur . For example, Easy fought equally hard in other towns during the Bulge battles after Foye.
I've never been 100% comfortable that Winters made contact with Ambrose to get the book written and I am no fan of Ambrose with all his errors in his books and an unwillingness to correct them, his plagiarism and his hatred of all things British (apart from the OBLI Pegasus landing), however, I see Easy Co as symbolic of all the men who fought rather than beign the best of the best as they have been labelled.
Regardless, it is a very good book and with a map and goole earth, you can really get a feel for what happened and to whom and where.
I am tempted to use this and the 'In The Footsteps of Band of Brothers' book to set out a Garmin route and try it out when i go on tour in May/June this year. If it works well, I'll do a trip report and make the route available.
Dave
). They might all link in in some way but the general route of Easy lends itself to a tour from Upottery to Nijmegen and on to Bavaria via the Alsace going out and maybe back via Berlin and the forests ........... Hell, maybe I should do a WW2 battlefields 'book' of my own on DVD with chapters with links to routes and photos and sub-histories ....... 
. I was thinking of starting...well here (Switzerland)...cutting across to Oradour-sur-glane ( Sister lives in that region), then heading up to the the Normandy beaches and following the route of Easy company. Id like to try and fit in the Dambusters raid (Mohn, Eder, Sorpe, Lister & Ennepe) if possible. 
lol
Dave
