re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today

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FWIW, historians are very critical of the book to the point they do not see it as an accurate representation.

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It’s pretty well documented that Ambrose relied too much on David websters memoirs. But damn the miniseries and book are based on the SOLDIERS remembrances. Not empirical data. That’s kind of the whole point. I mean it interviews the actual huge penis swinging heroes who were in those fricking foxholes in the Ardennes. Yes some people were unfairly portrayed, but even winters doesn’t really dispute much in his book. He just kind of sets the record straight on people he thought were characterized unfairly, sobel being one. Essentially though he says it happened the way it was shown. Sobel ran their asses into the ground up and down Currahee to the point the noncoms did revolt, Winters led that attack at brecourt manor, Winters did run up behind that line of Nazis. Speirs did run thru nazi held Foy to link up with another group and then ran back. Winters did fake scouting trips at the end of the war so as not to put his men in harms way.
There is not a lot to be pissed about from an historical point of view. Did they get a battalion number wrong? Yeah but it wasn’t meant to be 100% accurate. Memories aren’t and that’s what this was about.

Btw the part that always gets me is when malarkey comes back to the cleaner lady and gets his clothes then she starts handing him the bundles for all his friends that weren’t coming back and he can’t tell her and he just pays for them all!


Btw Eugene Roe the Louisianan medic feautured during the battle of the bulge episode came back from the war and had a construction company off Choctaw. A hero among us and we didn’t even know.