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Band of Brothers |
In the summer of 1942, young men in Army training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, are given an opportunity to be part of a unique unit of paratroopers. This unit offers $50 dollars a month extra for hazardous duty pay, which draws a lot of the volunteers. These men begin a very rigorous training regimen under Captain Sobel, whom most of the men come to hate. Their training includes basic infantry skills - use and maintenance of various weapons, map reading,... Citizen Soldiers This book picks up where Ambrose's bestseller about D-Day left off, taking the armies from the hedgerows of Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. It's an infantry soldier's-eye view of the war, filled with interviews of hundreds of soldiers from both sides. The tales run from the sublime (American soldiers capture a German who rescued an American from a burning tank, ask him if he would rather be a prisoner ... Nothing Like It in the World ...
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