Meet The Real Life Band of Brothers
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071013/ap_on_en_ot/books_band_of_brothers
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After parachuting into Europe during World War II, battling along a strip of road called Hell's Highway in the Netherlands and surviving the freezing woods of Bastogne surrounded by German troops, William Guarnere and Edward Heffron do not consider themselves heroes. Guarnere, 84, and Heffron, 84, are among the surviving members of the fabled Easy Company memorialized in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers", and they recently published a new book, "Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends".
The book began after the two were interviewed for a magazine article in 2001 when the miniseries aired. They hadn't talked to their families much about the war, but as some of the last remaining members of Easy Company Guarnere estimates about 23 are still alive they felt an obligation to tell their story.
The book is told through alternating voices, each man describing his childhood, the war and the years that followed.
The book began after the two were interviewed for a magazine article in 2001 when the miniseries aired. They hadn't talked to their families much about the war, but as some of the last remaining members of Easy Company Guarnere estimates about 23 are still alive they felt an obligation to tell their story.
The book is told through alternating voices, each man describing his childhood, the war and the years that followed.
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