the E Company, played a decisive role in almost all of the major battles that took place in

the later part of World War II. This book also captures how this group of men, originally

composed of one hundred and forty seven men, managed to capture Hitler’s Eagle Nest

while suffering an astounding one hundred and fifty percent causality rate.

The author of this book, Stephen Ambrose, attempts to show what life was like

for the soldiers after the war was over. Instead of ending the book with the war,

Ambrose writes of how the men in the E Company made the transition from army

soldiers trained to kill to ordinary citizens trying to reestablish their lives and begin

One point Ambrose reinforces to the reader is that many of the soldiers of Easy

Company were not career soldiers but ordinary citizens torn from their everyday lives by

the war. Ambrose uses chapter one to write of the lives of the soldiers before the war,

including the struggle that many of them endured throughout the Depression. Although,

many of these men resented having to participate in an overseas war, and had little to no

Another strong point Ambrose makes is how enduring basic training was for the

combat experience, they were all willing to become paratroopers in order to make their

This soldier, an officer, noticed the prisoners were attempting to escape while their

without the slightest regard to consequences.” (21)

this book to graphically describe what these men actually faced in combat and what evils

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