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The British ALWAYS do it the best

Advantages: The British during D-Day
Disadvantages: I need more!

After reading both Band of Brothers and D-Day and enjoying them immensely I had to get my fix with another book by Stephen E Ambrose. That book was "Pegasus Bridge: D-Day - the Daring British Airborne Raid" While Band of Brothers focused on the Americ ...

chrisfisher01 14.01.2004 · Read full review
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Pegasus Brisge

Advantages: Literally brilliant
Disadvantages: no noticeable faults

Well written account of stupendous achivevemnts by the Ox and Bucks regiment under the command of John Howard far surpasses any achievement of american counterparts on D-Day(call me biased) adavantage of this book are that in previous books written by ste ...

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Lets invade France

Advantages: All the beaches of D-Day with all it's horrors, humour, ingenuity and bravery
Disadvantages: none

...Band of Brothers TV series I went out and bought the book. It was a great book, so I bought another by the author (Stephen E Ambrose) and that was this book - D Day June 1944 ( The Climactic Battle of World War II ). This book tells ...

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Review of D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II - Stephen Ambrose

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HOW THE YANKS WON THE WAR.

Advantages: Well written and engrossing.
Disadvantages: They didn't all make it.

OK, so I may be having a bit of a ‘dig’. I apologise to mattygroves and any other Americans reading this, but the reason for the hint of sarcasm will become apparent later, so please keep reading. To be truly fair, if you want to know how the Brits did it ...

alma 09.03.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose

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Amazing.

Advantages: An eye opener
Disadvantages: The pictures fell out of the middle of the book after a short time

I bought this book shortly after the mini-series was first shown on TV. I wanted to know more about the likes of Richard Winters, Ron Spears and the rest of the men, and suspected that however faithfully Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had tried to tell th ...

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Review of Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose

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