Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers - Hardcover

Larry Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786278862 ISBN 13: 9780786278862

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2005

Synopsis

They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne - the "Band of Brothers" - a fighting unit whose members became legendary in the annals of World War II combat for their bravery, their ability to get the job done against nearly insurmountable odds, and their unswerving loyalty to one another in the face of death. Here, for the first time, is the compelling story of the man who led them - an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero.

About this title

About the Author:

Larry Alexander has been a journalist and columnist for the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for more than a decade, winning numerous awards for excellence in journalism. He grew up on the same street in the same town as Major Dick Winters, three decades later.

From Publishers Weekly:

The commander of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was the subject of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers, the HBO miniseries made from it, and now this biography from a Pennsylvania journalist. Much of the book covers the same ground as the preceding work (Winters's command from Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge), but it also covers his youth in rural Pennsylvania, the Depression-era hardships he survived and the old-fashioned work ethic that stood him in good stead when he was drafted in 1941. Promotion eventually brought Winters to the rank of major and command of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th, and he was urged to stay in the army after WWII and again during Korea. But he settled down as a successful seller of livestock feed, raised a family and at the end of the book is still alive at 87. This straightforward study of the best sort of small-unit leader—fair, judiciously rewarding merit or the lack thereof, able to deal with a wide variety of people, leading from in front—is for the dedicated only. (May)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786278862
• ISBN 13: 9780786278862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 631