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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Source: Amazon
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
"As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company" Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day to the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Dachau to Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest.' (2001)
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Source: Amazon
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Ambrose "focuses on the combat experiences of ordinary soldiers, as opposed to the generals who led them, and offers a series of compelling vignettes that read like an enterprising reporter's dispatches from the front lines." (1998)
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Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
Source: Presidio Press
Author: Donald Burgett
"The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division (fictional Private Ryan's unit) were ready for some well earned rest and recuperation. Following their combat in the Normandy Invasion, the division had been mauled during Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden, the campaign for the 'bridge too far' immortalized by Cornelius Ryan." Amazon.com readers give it 5 stars. (May 1999)
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
Source: Burford Books
Author: Charles B. MacDonald
"As a newly commissioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish-the Battle of the Bulge." Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (November 1999)
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D-DAY: The Greatest Invasion - A People's History
Source: Word Trends
Author: Dan van der Vat
E-mail: petercostanzo@wordtrends.com
Richly illustrated with hundreds of historical photographs -- many from private photo albums -- as well as personal artifacts, dramatic paintings by the many war artists on the scene, and modern color photographs, this book captures and preserves for a new generation the entire human drama and heroism that marked that unforgettable "longest day."
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On Time, On Target: The World War II Memoir os a Field Artillery Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne
Source: Presidio Press
Author: John McKenzie
The 'All Americans' of the 82nd Airborne Division (their distinctive red-white-and-blue shoulder patch featured a stylized double-A representing the fact that their World War I 'ancestors,' the 82nd Infantry Division had been frawn from across the United States) participated in some of the toughest fighting of World War II." Amazon.com readers give it 4.5 stars. (May 2000)
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Source: Amazon
Author: Elizabeth A. Fenn
"In this engaging, creative history, Fenn (Natives and Newcomers) addresses an understudied aspect of the American Revolution: the intimate connection between smallpox and the war." (2001)
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