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From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to their disbanding in 1945, historian Steven Ambrose tells the story of E Company of the U.S. Army's 506th Regiment. As they advanced through Europe during World War II, the men of "Easy" Company kept getting the tough assignments, from parachuting into France early D-Day morning, to capturing Hitler's Bavarian outpost.

A main selection of the Military Book Club In September 1944, as the Allies drove across Europe after Normandy, British field marshal Bernard Montgomery launched Operation Market Garden to secure the lower Rhine-Germany's last great natural barrier in the west-and passage to Berlin. Though Allied soldiers outnumbered Germans two to one, they suffered devastating casualties and were forced to retreat. Then, in March 1945, Montgomery orchestrated...

They were the 'other' Band of Brothers. A Company of Heroes features interviews with many of the men not focused on in the book "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose or in the television mini-series by the same name. Never before seen video and photos are also included in this film.

"An epic tale of a brotherhood forged by war--masterfully told by a lifelong journalist, war correspondent, and U.S. Army veteran."--

Story of the military plan for control of the lower Rhine in Sept., 1944, using an airdrop of British and American divisions.