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332 p., [8] p. of plates
ill., maps.
Summary: Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was a rifle company. Stephen Ambrose tells the story of this company, which kept getting the tough assignments. Easy Company was responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors, as well as the soldiers journals and letters, Ambrose tells us the stories of these American heroes.