Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, from training to Normandy, Holland, Bastogne and Berchtesgaden, through interviews with the men. The source of the series and a study of small-unit leadership and cohesion.
Read it if…
you want to see what makes a unit hold together.
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Skip it if…
you cannot read combat.
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Three things you will actually use
- Train hard together; fight for each other.
- Leaders share the risk.
- Cohesion is built before the crisis.
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Read the Bastogne chapters.
Our verdict
Small-unit cohesion.
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