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Nearly as good a rifle company as any on the planet, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept obtaining the tough assignments -- accountable for from parachuting into France early d day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a business that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors in addition to the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of those American heroes.