Band of Brothers

[singlemalt]

by Stephen Ambrose.

Just finished this. "Fantastic" isn't strong enough to describe how Ambrose writes about what these guys went through. Truly an inspiring, terrific read.

[stilltrucking]

ten four
I saw the pbs movie
read half the book
thinking about abstroint's step- grandfather
and the US army captain who gave cigarettes to the German Pow's
Then killed them on the spot at the edge of that road
I suppose that is what jacked by jaws about jv
when he used the tet_offensive moniker on litkicks.
I used short timers for a while
It was inspired by the novel The Short Timers, by Gustav Hasford.
Singlemalt whoever you are I tell I will never read another war memoir. Not going to study war no more. But if you liked Band of Brothers and you want to no more you can do no better than "Short Timers"

Me I don't want to know no more.
I take jimboloco's and surfermike's word for what they went through
"blessed are those who have not seen yet..."

[singlemalt]

Band of Brothers is a history book. I wouldn't call it a war memoir. Unfortunately, war is history. We define our history by war. The Roman Empire, the Revolutionary War, the Ottoman Empire, WWI, WWII, etc.

Perhpas the strongest message in Band of Brothers is how much the GI's hated the war, hated the army and hated being shoved into combat again and again. Every infantryman in the book hated fighting. They had only two positive experiences -- bonding with one another and liberating the work/concentration camps.

I agree with you in wanting no part of combat. But I sure do appreciate the sacrafices that the American GI's made in WWII.

[e_dog]

ain't S.A. a plagiarist?

that's surprisin' you think that Band o' Brothers' a anti-war flick. sure not da way they marketed it . . . .

[stilltrucking]

the Ottoman Empire

Strange how few people have heard of The Ottoman Empire and how much the fall of that empire has to do with all the wars of the past hundred years.

I would like to read that bookby the Buddhist Nun. Other than that I can not think of another book about war that I want to read. Well mayebe the book about Rwanda by that Canadian general who was in charge of UN team in Rwanda at the time. Shake Hands With THe Devil.

I suppose Rwanda would have to rank as my favorite genocide. It was so Cro-Magnon in your face cold blooded killers. Nothing fancy, no gas chambers or firing squads, it was glorious stone age violence, how many handy tools for killing we have, axes, shovels, machettes, stones, base ball bats.

Sorry for the ramble, I am no warrior, but I have left a trail of blood from baltimore to astoria, I suppose violence is not my second nature. It is my first. G*d bless our veterans who have rose above human nature or at least see it for what it is.