Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends

Wild Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron are releasing the book they wrote with Robyn Post. Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends. They were on the radio in Philadelphia this morning. It was great to hear them... they both have good senses of humor.

 

Is that out now emperor or coming out when?

 

It's out now. I went to their book signing in Philadelphia last night but I was a bit late getting there after work, and every copy was sold out. There was a line around the store. These guys are like rock stars.

I just checked Amazon and the Barnes and Noble websites and it seems to be available both places.

 

I want this book!!!Wild Bill and Babe are all two of South Philadelphia,so their friendship is grown during the war and after.I've seen lots of pics and they're always togheter.Best buddies.

 

I have read a few books on the 506th, so I too am interested in this, thanks for the info!!

 

Update - I read the book and it was everything I had hoped it would be. Guarnere and Heffron are direct, thoughtful, and funny. Robyn Post is invisible, but the care she took in organizing this book is obvious. I would recommend it to anyone.

 

Here's a picture of them signing books at a Barnes and Noble in downtown Philly around October 2007. Their book sold out before they even showed up for the book signing.



The book is such good reading. It's like having the two vets telling you a story. You could almost hear their voices talking. It's so funny how they out-partied and outdrank the cast of Band of Brothers when they visited the set during filming.

 

One of my favorites scenes form the Band Of Brothers series, is these 2 walking in the woods of I think Foy, anyway it was moving to me.

 

I find that poignant too, right enough when I watch the veterans speaking on television or standing where they fought and seeig the emotion in their faces there is no need for words, that gets to me too!

 

Have hesitated to pick this one up, only because I'm hoping for a nice paperback release soon. Glad to read that it is every bit as good as I thought it would be. Then again, those boys of the 506...how could it not be?

Has anyone read David Webster's book, Parachute Infantry? I bought the paperback some time ago but have not been able to get to it yet.

 

I read Parachute Infantry about 6 years ago so I can't remember too many details. All I remember is that Webster was not with that Last Patrol in Hageneau as portrayed in BoB. The book was also a little bit more like written by an author rather than the light first hand account bantering between two old vets like in the Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends.