With only hours until D-Day, a small team of American paratroopers drops into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that is crucial to the invasion's success. These outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen.

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elite rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, and capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered 150 percent casualties, and whose...

Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of the 101st Airborne Division is unique among military histories. Never before has such a detailed study been made of the organization, training, and operations of a single division of the United States Army. Each action in which the Division took part has been minutely studied and checked against available operations reports and the memories of the men who were there. From the beaches of Normandy to Hitler's Berchtesgaden...

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...

Includes the two ten-part HBO miniseries Band of brothers and The Pacific, with bonus material. Band of Brothers: Follows the 101st Airborne as it prepares and lands on D-Day, and fights its way through Europe to the end of World War II. The Pacific: The interlocked stories of three marines during America's battle with the Japanese in World War II.

Explains what it takes to become a paratrooper, discusses the combat history of the 82nd Airborne Division, and describes the training necessary for these special soldiers.