Biggest Brother

[Ken C.]

I am an avid fan of Stephen Ambrose and his series of books on WWII. I have read pretty much everything he has written. My favorite book of his is Band Of Brothers. I have read this at least 4 times. In this book I was introduced to the man that is Major Richard Winters. His leadership and bravery is something that I admire. I consider him one of my personal heroes and I have always wondered about his life before and after the war and I have found a book that does just that. Biggest Brother is the life story of Richard Winters written by Larry Alexander. I highly recommend this book to those of you who wish to learn more about this incredible human being.

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[stjames]

My copy is on my nightstand waiting it's turn in rotation. I'm glad to hear you liked it, have you read David Websters Parachute Infantry? Good read and a major source for Ambrose's Band of Brothers. Web came out of the service pretty bitter towards Officers he consider abusive of there power, vowing to never call another man "Sir" again in his life.

 

[Trout Tamer]

It sounds like a good book. After watching the HBO series "Band of Brothers", I became interested in Maj. Winters' pre- and post-war life. I guess I'm not the only one I recently began reading "Citizen Soldiers" by Ambrose and it's a great book. WHat those soldiers endured during WWII is astounding. When one takes the time to really learn about serving during WWII, one gets a definite sense of why that generation is known as "The Greatest Generation".

 

[MikeH]

The existance of men like Richard Winters further illustrates what a farce it is to have a bunch of two-bit celebrities included in the 'Greatest American" fiasco. Afganistan and Iraq are filled with Americans who are vastly superior to many of those on that list.

 

[FullerH]

My Dad was a member of the Class of 1934 at West Point and one of his classmates, who went on to command the 101st during part of the 1950s, was a Captain during the period when they were moving through Belgium and Northern France. He tells a story about how one of his squads came back in to report a NAZI atrocity in a local village. He said that there was this huge big barn-like building that stank so badly that nobody could even walk into it. They assumed that it had been the scene of a massacre of locals as there had been considerable resistance activity in the area. So, rather than deal with the well-aged remains of a massacre, he called in artillery from a "Long Tom" battery, 155mm rifles. This brought the building down, buryng the contents. At this point the villagers came up to him madder than all Hell. It seemed that these Americans had just destroyed their cheese aging cellars! The stench was that of ripe cheese.