American Eagles
Subtitle: The 101st Airborne's Assault on Fortress Europe 1944/45
By: Charles Whiting
Publisher: Eskdale
Published: 2001
Place of publication: York, England, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780953867721
Subjects: United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st -- History.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe.
Description: American Eagles… is the thrilling true story of the US 101ST Airborne Division. From the rigorous training in ‘Old Jolly’ (England) to their first operational jump in Normandy, Charles Whiting tells the story of this ‘Band of Brothers’ who fought, suffered and died in the eleven month campaign that followed.

For anyone who enjoyed the major Steven Spielberg TV mini-series in 2000, "Band of Brothers" (Dreamworks SKG, HBO, BBC), this book is an ideal companion piece. Written from direct involvement with the elite division when his regiment was under the command of 101ST Airborne in Holland, as well as painstaking research on the site of each of the Eagles’ battles and survivors’ stories, Mr. Whiting doesn't give a melodramatic ‘tarting up’ of events, but a bird's eye view as part of the handful of British personnel who fought alongside the American Paratroopers as they thrust through German-occupied France, freeing civilians from the Nazi tyranny. Learn about the frightening things done by both sides of the conflict, proving that Hell still has a thing or two to learn from War.

From Normandy through Holland, Bastogne, and French Alsace, and then onwards to their final date with destiny at Hitler's “Eagle's Nest” in the Bavarian Alps, we gain a picture of a brave, elite division, warts and all, from one of the men who was there; perhaps Britain's most renowned popular WWII military historian, Charles Whiting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184) and index.