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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.

On the lawless streets the guilty are left unhindered to go about their business. Returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, former Paratrooper Bryant is appalled by what he sees in a country he can no longer recognize. Determined to do something about it, he assembles a group of like minded souls who resolve to restore the balance between right and wrong, good and evil, enforcing justice with a brutality to match that of the once unpunished, unsuspecting...

In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.

The story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army--members of an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division called Easy Company. Arguably the bravest, most efficient, physically fit, and tight-knit group of soldiers the Army has ever produced, the unit was called upon for every high-risk operation...

A member of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers recounts his life, from his sports career at UCLA, to his experiences during World War II, to his post-war legal career as a prosecutor and his role in helping to convict Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert Kennedy.

Describes the role of paratroopers in the United States armed forces, including paratrooper units in the Navy, Army, and Air Force, and details the training and equipment required to become a special operations paratrooper.

"This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, 6th Fallschirmj?ger, from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. Known as 'The Lions of Carentan' after its ferocious battles in Normandy, these men were thereafter thrown into the thickest of fighting as the Third Reich underwent its death throes"--Jacket.