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Book Review: 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest'

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(C) 2001 Simon & Schuster. Cover art (C) 2001 Home Box Office, Inc.  I must be honest and admit that I did not read Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers until I had read several other works by the late historian and biographer who, along with Steven Spielberg and Tom Brokaw, helped renew interest in World War II and the amazing men and women of what Brokaw calls "the Greatest Generation." In fact, it wasn't until almost 17 years ago that I bought Touchstone Books' third edition of Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, even though Ambrose's book had been around since 1992, two full years before the publication of his trailblazing D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (Simon & Schuster, 1994). But after having read the latter and its follow-up, Citizen Soldiers , I had become an avid reader of Ambrose's World War II books.  Band of Brothers