Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers

by Larry Alexander

Overview

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others.

They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne—the World War II fighting unit legendary for their bravery against nearly insurmountable odds and their loyalty to one another in the face of death. Every soldier in this band of brothers looked to one man for leadership, devotion to duty, and the embodiment of courage: Major Dick Winters.

This is the riveting story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero. After he enlisted in the army’s arduous new Airborne division, Winters’s natural combat leadership helped him rise through the ranks, but he was never far from his men. Decades later, Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers made him famous around the world.

Full of never-before-published photographs, interviews, and Winters’s candid insights, Biggest Brother is the fascinating, inspirational story of a man who became a soldier, a leader, and a living testament to the valor of the human spirit—and of America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451218391
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/02/2006
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	132,865
Product dimensions:	5.99(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Larry Alexander is the author of the New York Times bestselling Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers and Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II, as well as the coauthor of A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II. He has been a journalist and columnist for the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for more than a decade, winning numerous awards for excellence in journalism.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Excellent.…Anyone who has read Band of Brothers will want to read this.”
—ARMY Magazine

“A great job…extremely readable.”—The Topeka Capital-Journal

“[A] straightforward study of the best sort of small-unit leader.”—Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

Excellent.…Anyone who has read Band of Brothers will want to read this.”—ARMY Magazine

“A great job…extremely readable.”—The Topeka Capital-Journal

“[A] straightforward study of the best sort of small-unit leader.”—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

The commander of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was the subject of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers, the HBO miniseries made from it, and now this biography from a Pennsylvania journalist. Much of the book covers the same ground as the preceding work (Winters's command from Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge), but it also covers his youth in rural Pennsylvania, the Depression-era hardships he survived and the old-fashioned work ethic that stood him in good stead when he was drafted in 1941. Promotion eventually brought Winters to the rank of major and command of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th, and he was urged to stay in the army after WWII and again during Korea. But he settled down as a successful seller of livestock feed, raised a family and at the end of the book is still alive at 87. This straightforward study of the best sort of small-unit leader-fair, judiciously rewarding merit or the lack thereof, able to deal with a wide variety of people, leading from in front-is for the dedicated only. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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