PARAS US AU COMBAT

Mathieu Longue gives us here a complete account and a detailed analysis of the route taken by the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during the fighting, together with the main feats of arms of the world famous Easy Company, the Band of Brothers, helped by veterans and other specialists.

Almost alongside the paratroopers, the reader follows their training very closely before they found themselves right in the midst of the fighting in Normandy, Holland, the Ardennes and Alsace, thus reliving the tragic moments of one of the US Army’s sombre but also glorious pages of World War Two.

The book includes numerous descriptions and organograms giving the make up of the units together with precise information about weapons and equipment used by American paratroops of that period.