In particular, the section on Compton's career as an LAPD policemen and then district attorney read like something out of "LA Confidential".īuck Compton lived an incredibly full life - he was a child actor in Hollywood, a UCLA baseball player and a lineman for the UCLA football team that won the Pac-10 and went to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 1943, a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne during WWII who won a Silver Star for his role in destroying a German artillery battery in Normandy, a plainclothes policeman for the LAPD, and an LA district attorney who prosecuted Sirhan Sirhan for the assassination of Robert Kennedy. It does turn out to be an excellent study in the life and times of the Los Angeles area from the Depression all the way through the 1980's. Like Rashomon, from the differences in the stories, it is possible to glean insights into the characters of each of these men and how they wanted to remember themselves.Īs mentioned by other reviewers, of all of these books, this one by Buck Compton actually has the least amount of information about E Company's actions during WWII. Details of how things happened in E Company's WWII campaign change from one storyteller to the next.
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Reading all of these books and re-watching the HBO movie series on DVD has a Rashomon-like quality. In addition, a separate biography of Dick Winters - "Biggest Brother" - was written by Larry Alexander. David Kenyon Webster had earlier written his war autobiography in the 1950's, and this was finally published in 1994 with help from Stephen Ambrose as "Parachute Infantry". So far, these books have included autobiographies by Dick Winters in "Beyond Band of Brothers", Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron in "Brothers in Battle", Donald Malarkey in "Easy Company Soldier", and Lynn "Buck " Compton in "Call of Duty". Since the success of the HBO series "Band of Brothers" (BoB), several other books have come out about some of the key members of that story.
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