I read the book years ago. When someone urged me to watch the miniseries, I stated that I didn’t subscribe to HBO and never would (mostly pornography).
So I bought the DVD set.
I was hooked.
I enjoyed “Band of Brothers” so much, I took the Steven Ambrose Tours “Band of Brothers” tour. We met in Atlanta, visited Camp Toccoa (now an industrial park), climbed Mt. Currahee (in a van), flew to England, took a ferry to Cherbourg, and followed in the footsteps of “Easy Company.” One of our guests was Pvt. Ed Mauser, 2nd Platoon, Easy Company. I have a photo of Pvt. Mauser standing in a foxhole in the Ardennes. Near the end of the tour, we had lunch at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest.”
It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Sadly, Pvt. Mauser passed away shortly after we came home.
Did you see, in Normandy, in the villages south of the beach, in the churches, where the stained glass windows had been blown out by the German army, they were replaced with stained galas windows with images of Airborne paratroopers coming down like angels?
My favorite episode is coming, Episode 4 Crossroads.
Back in May of 2018, I went on the Band of Brothers Tour, 2-weeks, started in Atlanta, visited Toccoa, Ga, then over night flight to London, Ferry Crossing to France, all over Normandy, then Holland, Bastogne, Dachau Concentration Camp and ending up in Berchesgarten and a trip up the mountain to the Eagles Nest......
An Epic once in a lifetime visit...