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emotional
informative
medium-paced
3.0
This was better than the Shifty Powers bio, probably better than the Buck Compton one, actually, in that we weren't letting Brotherton comment that much. It's basically oral histories of a handful of E Company guys, recorded about five years after the show came out. Two or three are names from the show, but mostly they're new to us people.
Their stories are interesting, but the formatting was the same as The Marines of Montford Point, where it grouped them by topic, and I had trouble keeping track of who was who for the names I didn't recognise. I'd rather have read each man's story straight through, rather than have them all mixed together. The author also really wanted to make sure that Kids These Days respect their elders, which... I'm pretty sure that kids these days who don't would not be reading a book like this, so I'm never sure who's meant to be lectured there.
Honestly, my favourite section was the bit at the end with stories by Sobel's and Luz's kids. If nothing else the book highlights how many different ways people can remember the exact same events.
Their stories are interesting, but the formatting was the same as The Marines of Montford Point, where it grouped them by topic, and I had trouble keeping track of who was who for the names I didn't recognise. I'd rather have read each man's story straight through, rather than have them all mixed together. The author also really wanted to make sure that Kids These Days respect their elders, which... I'm pretty sure that kids these days who don't would not be reading a book like this, so I'm never sure who's meant to be lectured there.
Honestly, my favourite section was the bit at the end with stories by Sobel's and Luz's kids. If nothing else the book highlights how many different ways people can remember the exact same events.