Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171194 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Very good, but flags a bit towards the end
I generally agree with the other reviews as the book's easy to read and flows very much like a novel (I wonder a little how accurate it is - There's a lot of detail in there that seem like they must have been 'dramatic reconstruction', especially in terms of dialogue, which to be fair is what helps the flow - but I'm nit picking here).

That said, it gets slow and repetitive towards the end and could be a good 50-100 pages shorter in my view.

That said, a very good counterpoint to BoB and better, in my view, than Dick Winter's Beyond Band of Brothers which simply seemed to retread to Band of Brothers.

Better than Band of Brothers
The day I read Band of Brothers, my life changed forever. My newfound obsession with WW2 led me to many other detailed accounts of the war- None of which begin to compare with the blunt realism and honesty of David Webster's emotionally charged memoirs. Parachute Infantry spares the reader the usual, patriotic, Hollywood image war, and presents the true account of the average soldiers life. An absolute MUST HAVE for the casual ww2 reader, and for the hardcore enthusiast, especially if you have read Band of Brothers.

war from the soldiers point of view
After Band of Brothers, reading this book gave me a greater insight into the life of a solder during world war two. Webster writes immediately after the war, and so has yet to comprehend the 'bigger picture' of what he had achieved. There are no reflections on the nature of war, nor how the conflict shaped the future of Europe. What you get is an honest account of life on the front line. After this book I went back and read Band of Brothers. Both should be required reading for any one interested in the history of war, and how history is 're-written' by the passage of time