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 enlarge | Authors: Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 253720
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ASIN: B000GIW42S
Publication Date: February 7, 2006
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 Great Book June 23, 2008
This is a great book .. if we had a country full of men like this it would be the greatest country in history.
Leadership under fire June 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
True insight through the eyes of a great combat leader inspiring men to fight under difficult circumstances to protect each other on a none forgiving battlefield. Major Dick Winters is a man who understands the art of war and making the right decisions under pressure. A true warrior and a great American.
Subtle Enhancements June 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Major Winters' book adds some subtle detail to events outlined in the Band of Brothers from Ambrose, ex: exploits of Speirs on and shortly after D-Day. It also lets you know that there were some events in BoB not completely portrayed as they happened, such as what happened to trooper Albert Blithe.
Major Winters does not elaborate on his own personal feelings, or expound much on what he thought other men may have thought or experienced. He should not have to do so. He earned the right to tell his story his way, and keep private whatever he desires. He explains events respectfully and thoughtfully, as you would expect from a dignified and quietly confident man. There is a great deal of their experience that is not communicable in any way other than experience.
I do not understand any criticism of Major Winters in how he wrote this book, and I hope he earned some rewards from the book that he can pass on to his family. Buying his book is probably the only way that I'll ever get to say thank you...that and trying to follow some of his example.
For those who loved the mini-series June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you enjoyed the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, this book is likely to appeal to you. Dick Winters gives you much more information about his own life, and he gives considerable information which is not in the movie about his unit. This information is well presented and extremely enjoyable to read after seeing the miniseries. The heart of the book, however, is his comments on leadership. I found them to be inspiring and very usable and useful. They alone would make the book worth reading, although most of the rest of the book wouldn't mean anything to someone that hasn't seen the miniseries. People like Major Winters are a true inspiration to all of us that have never had to experience the horror of war.
Fabulous Memoir and Manual on Leadership All in One April 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Major Winters has written not only a fabulous memoir of his role as company commander of Easy Company and later a Battalion Commander of 506th PIR, but he has also woven into it his very personal story as well as a wonderful manual for leadership that every man in a leadership position should follow.
Like Stephen Ambrose's original book, Band of Brothers, Winters takes us through his entire experience with Easy Company and the 506th PIR from the start of training at Toccoa to the end of the war. Many of the stories Winters tells are the same, but here we get the insights into an outstanding commander's mind--why he makes the decisions he does and what he bases them on.
Winters gives us insights into the individual exploits and abilities of the company's most outstanding men and also into the leadership at the company, battalion, and regiment levels. We get the same gritty stories of combat and heroic deeds that made the original Band of Brothers book and TV miniseries so compelling, but now we also get inside the mind of the commander and learn the psychology and the strategy that really makes a combat team, or any team, work successfully under extreme stress.
Winters closes the book with an update on the men at the time of writing, including some very moving personal letters. The last chapter is a brief exposition of leadership, closing with a one-page, 10-point summary of what makes a good leader under the heading, "Leadership at the Point of the Bayonet." The memoir is outstanding in every way, but this capstone chapter on leadership is of inestimable value.
As I closed the book, I felt some of the same admiration for Dick Winters that his men must have felt. The world yearns for men of character and leadership, and when you've read his personal account, you'll recognize that this is the very personal inside story of a man's man--how he thinks, what he feels, and what makes him and his team so successful. Major Winters is clearly a gentleman and a leader of the finest caliber whose team achieved what they did because he was able to recognize and bring out the best in his men, and they in turn brought out the best in him and in each other.
Do not miss this book. It may not have quite the polish of Ambrose's book, but it's more personal, more touching, and it's one of the best books about the war and combat leadership you will ever read.
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