re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today

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.