Hello guys, I was on vacation (and still am) at my cottage and we decided to go out and get ice cream. Well we took a pit-stop in the Genral Store, and as we were browsing around; I noticed a shelf of book's. So ofcourse I decided to take a look and found this book on the second world war. This book is called: "VICTORY Call To Arms" - Victory - Volume 1: Call to Arms: Amazon.ca: Stephen Coonts, David Hagberg, Barrett Tillman: Books So I just wanted to know everyone's opinions on this title if they have read it. Also BIG question; is this story real? Because I know "Pegasus bridge" is but "Band Of Brothers" is not. So please share
From what I have seen in the reviews (don't own it), it is an anthology of fictional accounts loosely based on historical experiences. I would purchase it for the "fun" of reading it, but I would make sure it wasn't in my "reference library". Just my own opinion of course.
Um, the book "Band of Brothers" is about as historically accurate as you can get. Its not a made-up tale.
Band of Brothers is very accurate -- as is the miniseries. For reference, a blurb on historical accuracy from wikipedia: In order to preserve historical accuracy, additional research was done outside of the Band of Brothers book by the various writers of the series. One such source was Easy Company soldier David Kenyon Webster, whose memoir, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich, was published by LSU Press in 1994 after his death in a boating accident. Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers book quotes liberally from Webster's then-unpublished diary entries. Webster's trained eye, honesty, and writing skills helped give the book and miniseries a tone not available in other G.I.s' diaries because it captured in detail the daily life of the infantryman working his way with comrades across Europe. Dale Dye, a retired Marine Corps captain and consultant on Platoon and Saving Private Ryan, as well as most of the surviving Easy Company veterans, such as Richard Winters, Bill Guarnere, Ed Heffron, and Amos Taylor, were asked for input.[8][19] Dye (who additionally plays the role of Robert F. Sink) had the actors undergo a 10-day boot camp.[19] Similarly, great attention was paid to details of weapons and costumes. Simon Atherton, the weapons master, corresponded with veterans to match weapons to scenes, and assistant costume designer Joe Hobbs extensively used photos and veteran accounts.[8] Similarly, most actors had contact with the people they were meant to portray, often by telephone, and several of the veterans came to the production site.[8] Nonetheless, co-executive producer Tom Hanks admitted that they could not provide complete accuracy: "We've made history fit onto our screens. We had to condense down a vast number of characters, fold other people's experiences into 10 or 15 people, have people saying and doing things others said or did. We had people take off their helmets to identify them, when they would never have done so in combat. But I still think it is three or four times more accurate than most films like this."[12] As a final accuracy check, the veterans saw previews of the series and approved the episodes before they were aired.[20] Nonetheless, some inaccuracies did manage to get into the series, such as in the case of Albert Blithe. Blithe is a focal point of the third episode, which incorrectly states that he died in 1948. In fact, Blithe lived on to 1967, dying while on active duty in the Army.[21]
Not quite, the Band Of Brothers is not 100% accurate. Every name,move,shot,weapon in that book are not all true. Sure it's based on something but not actually 100% accurate.
I know what you're getting at (use of "creative license" to make it more interesting), but in your original message you said that ""Pegasus bridge" is [real] but "Band Of Brothers" is not." It should be noted that Band of Brothers is overwhelmingly accurate - and it triumphs in comparison to other recent "popular" WW2 movies and books such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Saving Private Ryan and Windtalkers. The names in the BoB are true (at the most, a tertiary character has a fictitious name - but all of the focus soldiers are true), as are the overwhelming number of weapons. A lot of research went into the book and miniseries, including interviews with each participant, or their family/friends. There is obviously deviation in terms of the accuracy of the "shots", but these aren't really that important to the true story. For instance, does it matter if one of Major Winters' shots hit a window of a house or hit the shutters in the heat of battle? The "important" shots are, for the most part, very accurate. For some information on historical inaccuracy, see here: Base on true story MOVIES: Band of Brothers : Historical inaccuracies Keep in mind that the one "major" inaccuracy is Albert Blithe, and the rest are relatively minor (such as some E Company members had the wrong size netting on their helmets before D-Day)
These staement's are true, however "Pegasus Bridge" is completly true with every name, shot,talk, EVERYTHING. BoB however is not. I'm aware that it is more or less Historically accurate but it is not word- for-word correct. So that makes it not neccasarily real; just accurate on regular terms of combat, maybe names, weapon's E.t.c.
