
In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company.

From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E.

And at its peak?in Holland and the Ardennes?Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy.

Ambrose's iconic story of the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army.
