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re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today
Posted on 5/31/18 at 2:25 pm to extremetigerfanatic
Posted on 5/31/18 at 2:25 pm to extremetigerfanatic
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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
Didn't he write his unpublished memoirs and kept notes and a diary shortly after the war?
Time is crucial. There's a difference between writing a few years after the fact and recollecting 50 years later.
We all color our memories good or bad as we get older.
Nothing is ever remembered as it was.
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Posted on 6/1/18 at 11:12 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Webster's stuff wasn't really reliable.
He exaggerated a lot of people's faults. There's not too many kind words about him from the other vets.
Pretty much the only person he didn't try to insult was Winters.
On a related note, Ambrose is about the story and narrative. So he really liked to drum up the Germans they were up against were crack and elite, when they weren't. After the initial shock of the invasion the backbone of the Germans were surviving vets with old men and boys put in to bleed so the vets could squeeze a little more out for Germany.
The real last stand of the professional german army in the west was reactting to market garden and even then it was really allied audacity and overconfidence that beat us.
He exaggerated a lot of people's faults. There's not too many kind words about him from the other vets.
Pretty much the only person he didn't try to insult was Winters.
On a related note, Ambrose is about the story and narrative. So he really liked to drum up the Germans they were up against were crack and elite, when they weren't. After the initial shock of the invasion the backbone of the Germans were surviving vets with old men and boys put in to bleed so the vets could squeeze a little more out for Germany.
The real last stand of the professional german army in the west was reactting to market garden and even then it was really allied audacity and overconfidence that beat us.
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