Band of Brothers bibliography
Non-exhaustive list, only my 506th PIR Easy Co/101st Airborne related readings so far:
🦅 Stephen Ambrose - Band of brothers
Only kinda mandatory because the show is based on it but to be taken with a pinch of salt.
🦅 Dick Winters - Beyond Band of brothers
Very interesting to read Winters’ own words. Although not my fav because it’s (unsurprisingly) very factual and analytical. Good for historical/chronological reference.
🦅 Cole Kingseed - Conversations with Major Dick Winters
Interesting, mostly focused on Winters’ leadership qualities
🦅 Larry Alexander - Biggest Brother
❤ A fave! The approach is more personal and human (also most of the nuggets about Nixon are from this book).
🦅 Don Malarkey/Bob Welsh - Easy company soldier
❤ A fave!!! Little warning, it’s pretty melancholic, I always cry a lot rereading. (If I loved TV!Skip before, I totally fell in love with he real guy after that, second hand feels and all)
🦅 William Guarnere/Edward Heffon/ Robyn Post - Brothers in battle, best of friends:
❤ A fave!!! This one is both hilarious and devastating -because war is hell. (I usually reread a chapter after Malarkey’s to soothe my poor little heart.)
🦅 Marcus Brotherton - Shifty’s war
❤A fave!!! Biography written with 1st person POV, Shifty’s voice is beautifully captured. (It’s so heartwarming, I’m in perpetual beaming “Awwwwww” mood)
🦅 Marcus Brotherton - A company of heroes (anthology):
❤A fave. Individual focus on a selection of biographies with testimonials from their family. (I totally fell in love with Smokey reading this one)
🦅 Marcus Brotherton - We who are alive and remain (anthology): Global retelling of the whole story with multiple accounts.
🦅 Larry Alexander - In the footsteps of the Band of brothers, Return to Easy Company’s Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth
What the title promises! Prepare the travel bucket list!
🦅 David Kenyon Webster- Parachute infantry
I was a little refractory at first, because it looks like it was a big referencee in the writing of BoB and I’m still salty about Ambrose’s work.
That being said, it’s interesting as an individual’s experience of the war and gives little details on the sceneries and every day activities of a private.
🦅 Chris Langlois - How Easy Company Became A Band of Brothers
❤ A lovely book for younger audiences from Doc Roe’s grandson. Beautifully illustrated by Anneke Helleman.
🦅 Ed Shames/Ian Gardner - Airborn, the combat story of Ed Shames,Easy company
(Quite salty) POV from the (at some point) 3rd platoon leader (A little mention of Nixon, whom Shames found difficult to work with, in S2)
🦅 Marcus Brotherton/Lynn Compton - Call of duty: I’ve tried to read that one several time but it just doesn’t speak to me
🦅 Donald Burgett - Currahee/The road to Arnhem/Seven Roads to Hell/Beyond the Rhine
Easy reading, the whole ride from an Able company paratrooper’s POV, same kind of personal memoirs as Webster’s (with less complaining 😂).
🦅 Ian Gardner - Tonight We Die As Men/ Deliver Us From Darkness/ No Victory in Valhalla
Following the 506 PIR 3rd battalion. A bit heavy but interesting for a larger view of the actions (from the battalion Doc Roe couldn’t find in Bastogne, lost his way)
*The short documentary film “Seize and hold Carentan” by N3DLand follows this battalion.
🦅 George Koskimaki - The Battered Bastards of Bastogne
Very information packed collection of personnal recollections. A bit confusing if you are not already familiar with the subject.
(I only picked bits of it so far, wanting to find out what happened to the 326 airborne medical unit. Also interesting for Lipton and other vets’ recollections)
🦅 Charles Whiting - American Eagle
Very interesting, from an non American POV. I learnt about some stuffs only mentioned in passing or not at all, like the disaster of operation tiger in Slapton sand, or that the higher command wasn’t exactly confident about the efficiency of such airborne units until Bastogne.
🦅🏥 Paul Woodadge - Angels of Mercy: Two Screaming Eagle Medics in Angoville-au-Plain on D-Day
❤ Medics!! The title says it all. Beautiful story. The medics are from the 501st PIR
*There’s a WWII Foundation documentary “Eagles of Mercy” about this.
🦅 Robert Bowen - Fighting with the Screaming Eagles
Interesting personnal account from a glider’s pov (401st glider infantry regiment) and life as a POW captured in the Battle of the Bulge.
🏥 Martin King - Searching for Augusta: the forgotten angel of Bastogne
❤ Remember the black nurse “Anna” in Bastogne? Her real name is Augusta Chiwy and that’s her amazing story. (Just be aware that the author is a bit “salty” towards Renée Lemaire, more likely about the spotlight she received while Augusta was forgotten for so long)
*The book has a documentary counterpart.
🦈David Kenyon Webster - Myth and maneater: The story of the shark
❤ Don’t mind the sensationalist cover choice from the publisher who finally accepted to publish it (posthumously), profiting from the cinematic success of Jaws.
It’s beautifully and humorously written, very interesting and surprisingly ahead of its time (1960s) viewing sharks as much more than bloodthirsty monster.
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