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Originally Posted by tikilal 
Almost done with At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. It has been great. Very insightful.
I have also started two others, Saddams Bomb Maker and American Technology. Both seem good so far.
Dick Winters did not write Band of Brothers it was Stephen Ambrose, Winters did write his own book called Beyond the Band of Brothers. I enjoyed both. There are contradiction between the two wich made it more interesting.
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what are some of the contradictions between the two?
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One was probably a good, first hand account of a hero while the other was probably mostly plagarized. I do not read Ambrose at all. Everything I've read that was "written" by him (which ain't much) could have been easily read in other books.
Citizen Soldier is a good example. He borrowed heavily from three other books, all previously read by me, with the best being
The Men of Company K, by Leinbaugh and Campbell. I highly recommend that book if you want to get the feel of a US rifle company in Europe duing the 1944-45 campaign. It was very well written.
Ambrose apparently got a lot of his story for
Band of Brothers from the book
Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster. In the miniseries, Webster was the Screaming Eagle who was shot in the butt along Hell's Highway and did not return to E Company until after Bastogne. In the book, Webster made no mention of being ostracised by the rest of the company after being WIA and missing Bastogne. Don't know where they got that one from.
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