101st Airborne Books

101st Airborne Books
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We are compiling a list of recommended books relating to the 101st Airborne Division including their history, battles, and paratroopers. Asterisks denotes authors we have personally met and known.


NUTS! A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at Bastogne; Vincent J. Speranza*

Three of the Last WWII Screaming Eagles; Jos Groen*

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters; Dick Winters

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest; Stephen Ambrose

History of the 101st Airborne Division: Screaming Eagles: The First 50 Years; Colonel Robert E. Jones

101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles at Normandy; Mark Bando*

In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth; Larry Alexander

Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers; Jared Frederick and Erik Dorr 

Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"; Don Malarkey

Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers; Marcus Brotherton

Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story; William Guarnere and Edward Heffron

A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us; Marcus Brotherton

Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers; Lynn "Buck" Compton and Marcus Brotherton

More coming soon!


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