Band of Brothers
[ 2006-03-20 10:27 ]
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中文譯名: 《兄弟連》
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 074322454X
List Price: 138 RMB
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As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian
Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company,
whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth
circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling
basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German
cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas," on to the
Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration
camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest," where they drank the
madman's (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources,
three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one
became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Bobby Kennedy's assassin;
another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic C.O. who first
trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed
their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons
skipped his funeral.
The Easy Company survivors describe the hell
and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the
company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a
G.I. by his C.O. for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the
gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of
Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in
comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle." |
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