Band of Brothers Analysis and Summary Essay

The author of this book starts off by explaining how Lima Company’s First Platoon started. Fresh new boots out of the SOI (School of Infantry) that were trained to fight in combat as well as open up to each other and create wonderful bonds with one another. After training, they were finally sent to AFG where they spent months patrolling and

I would like to tell you about, Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate. This fiction book is about a young boy named Kek who is an immigrant from Sudan, Africa. He lived in Sudan his whole life until ten, but, has to move to America after a tragedy. It is hard for him to move to America. He holds on to hope no matter how hard things get and he has a lot of important new adventures in this country, that help him become a better person.

The play "Twelve Angry Men", By Reginald Rose, is a play about 12 jurors that in an

The Defiant Ones (1958) directed by Stanley Kramer showed the racial relations going on in the United States of America. The film features two men, one black and one white becoming friends, which was almost unheard of at the time. Although when this film came out segregation was illegal it still was not fully accepted as being the new norm. This film starts to try to shape America into accepting all races and stopping segregation, but also tries to mirror society when a third party is brought in and tries to come between the two men and their friendship. Kramer uses The Defiant Ones as a way to mirror the public of the times opinion and shape there new opinion of the changing world.

“Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir” is a memoir written by Joseph R. Owen, a lieutenant of Baker Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment. Lt. Owen narrates his experience as an officer in the Korean War, in an attempt to show the public what war is from a soldier's point of view. Readers are shown what sacrifices soldiers have to make during times of war, they are shown the experience of war through a different pair of eyes. The Chosin action is justly called majestic; and in this memoir, Lieutenant Owen tells the tale of the common men who made it so. Joseph informs the public about the experiences of the 7th Marine Regiment and the tragic end of the Chosin Reservoir where many Marines lost their lives. He shows us what sacrifices a soldier must make for his country, and he helps readers understand the impact of war on a man. The memoir was an extraordinarily detailed and realistic account of war, allowing the public to read the tale and enjoy not only a thrilling retelling of Chosin Reservoir, but also a memoir

The award-winning novel by Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers: Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, discusses one of the greatest examples of mission command in the form of 1st Lieutenant Richard Winters and his role in the Brecourt Manor Assault. This battle is a textbook example of how to fight against a superior enemy force that outnumbered the unit by four times as much. Facing overwhelming odds with just 16 paratroopers against over 60 German Soldiers, 1LT Winters nevertheless prevails and succeeds in achieving his objective while minimizing casualties to just three Soldiers lost. Looking back further into the American Revolution, the Battle of Bunker Hill on the American side is one of

Having a platoon of a couple hundred men to move through unknown territory is no easy task. Allen wrote, “One of the greatest trials was having to march gassed men when there was nothing else to be done, although sometimes it was fatal. We stirred up a lot of mustard gas getting out, and had the usual trouble of alarms and men getting lost when they put their masks on.” (pg. 57) Being gassed brought to many men the sensation of death, and for some the gas would be their cause of death. To avoid being threatened by the gas it was important for the platoon to keep moving, sitting around tended to make things distressing. Allen wrote, “Halts were the worst. After each one it was harder than ever to get the men on their feet. Some began to gag. Slightly gassed men showed symptoms of giving out, the young boys almost toppled over backward by their packs when they got up.” (pg. 105) The mustard gas was so harsh on the soldiers that it deprived them of their energy. In order to restore that energy the men needed to eat. Eating would eventually become a hardship the closer they got to the front lines, leaving the men to learn how to battle through the pains of hunger.

Not every man who 's fought in a war planned on doing so. In fact, not all of them even want to. It 's rare to find enough people voluntarily willing to lay down their lives for their country, so more often than not militaries used what we would call “citizen soldiers.” Citizen soldiers are exactly what they sound like, regular citizens taken from society and turned into people capable of serving in the military. Although it may seem obvious when plainly written out, citizen soldiers had vastly different experiences compared to career soldiers, and Stephen Ambrose attempted to pin down that specific experience in his book Citizen Soldier. Ambrose uses oral interviews from World War II veterans and other materials to explain the experiences of the common American soldier who served in WWII between D-Day and the eventual surrender of the German forces. However, when examining his book, it 's important to ask how successful Ambrose was in painting an accurate picture of this kind of soldier 's life during his service. Is the information he uses specific to the men who served in Europe, or can it also be linked back to the soldiers in the Pacific? This paper will evaluate his work by comparing it to oral interviews from WWII veterans both from the same areas that Ambrose 's veterans serve in and in locations not included in his work.

Douglas Brinkley uses several testimonies from the men who fought with Companies D, E, and F. These testimonies really bring the book alive, and it helps to tell the tail and connect the reader to the events. The descriptive tools used by Brinkley display a mental picture that is very detailed. These words are often used when Brinkley’s works, and he is a renowned

Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran. He recalls that when he enlisted in the army he was proud because he believed what the newspapers said. It was not long until he was forced to hold back his patriotism in the face of the blatant racism he experienced: “I believed that I was part of the hope of the world. But then I found that the army was segregated just like the South” (Mosley 104). In the beginning of the war Easy worked as a typist because black soldiers were segregated from the white soldiers and usually put in noncombatant positions. This was until the year 1944, when the Armed Forces were temporarily desegregated and black

In the months after D-Day, casualties mounted at a terrifying rate. “Six months after the landings, losses among U.S. forces in Europe had risen to nearly 350,000 troops killed, wounded or missing. The Battle of the Bulge, which began on December 16, 1944, inflicted an additional 80,000 casualties”(Adams). The problem that Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower faced in January 1945 as he planned for the final offensive into Germany was that he desperately needed riflemen — and he did not care where they came from or what color they were. Back in the States, training time for recruits was shortened and noncombat units were culled for anyone who could be spared to hold a rifle. “Next it was the turn of Army Specialized Training personnel and aviation cadets, who were wrenched from the comfort and security of their classrooms and taught the nomenclature of the M-1 rifle and the intricacies of dril”(Adams). Even these measures were not enough, and when the demand for men could not be met, the Army sent out word that it would accept volunteers from black units. Once training was complete, the 5th Platoon of K Company was assigned to the 394th Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. “The men broke camp in France and, after a two-day trip by train and truck, they crossed the Rhine at Remagen on March 12, 1945. The next day they reinforced K Company and went into combat in the hills above the bridge around

They provided a type of freedom; no rules or regulations were present on the front lines, as if that’s what Pyle was searching for his whole life. Along with freedom were lasting images of chaos. The scenes on the front line were bonding; the only way someone could understand the horrors of the war was if they could see it for themselves. The men experiencing the daily punishment of the front were a source of great admiration from Ernie Pyle. “The God-damned infantry, as they like to call themselves,” “the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys … that wars can’t be won without.” (pg. 91, Ernie Pyle’s War). Pyle understood how important the role of the “common man” was in Europe. He loved the underdog aspect to them, as if he could see himself in their unit fighting bravely. These men scrapped through the teeth of the German resistance, and Pyle would be damned sure they were recognized for

“The Rough Riders” was a very well-known infantry, name given to the first U. S Volunteer Cavalry during 1898. Before becoming President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt leader the Cavalry along with Colonel Leonard Wood as second in command. The Rough Riders were part of the Spanish-American war; Battle of the Guasmas, Battle of San Jun Hill and Seige of Santiago. Roosevelt goes into details about his journey to Cuba in this book.

In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton mentions music by Elvis and The Beatles to help characterize two groups of boys, the greasers and the socs. For example, the greasers enjoy listening to Elvis. At the drive-in-theater, Cherry tells Ponyboy, “You greasers have a different set of values. You’re more emotional.” When Elvis performs, he has a lot of energy, and he is very outgoing and passionate.

Band of Brothers Band of Brothers, a 2001 mini series of the non fictional historical account of the US Army’s famous 101st Airborne Division, was set during World War II. This show details the combined experiences of Major Richard “Dick” Winters and the men of Easy Company 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The series has a war genre mostly, however there is drama and bits of comedy. These men who fought was known as the “good war” were hardened men, who sacrificed so much, for sometimes too little.