Easy Co. in photographs book! (updated: available for order)

[Linda]

Yep, there was some delay in the binding process because Damian Lewis and Steven Spielberg ( @bicon: not Tom Hanks, he was already in) have contributed some text at last minute! Well I don't mind that for sure!

(However there was no delay in taking off the money of my account )

[poppy]

(However there was no delay in taking off the money of my account )

I know what you mean, Linda. Even a deposit of half and the balance on dispatch would have been better. It's a lot of money in one go with nothing to show for it

Ah well, it will be worth it in the end.

Poppy

[Linda]

Say has anybody noticed this?

I asked earlier who was who in this photo


Mooch answered: Paul Rogers, Terrence Harris, Joe Ramirez and unknown.
Now the link Poppy provides claims they are Buck Taylor, Terrence Harris, Cecil Pace and Walter Gordon.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 56440.html

Dare I ask, what is right?

[Mooch]

Mooch answered: Paul Rogers, Terrence Harris, Joe Ramirez and unknown.
Now the link Poppy provides claims they are Buck Taylor, Terrence Harris, Cecil Pace and Walter Gordon.

The newly id'ed troopers are the correct ones. The original ones were ID'ed by Chris Anderson. The latest come from Jake Powers and the vets. Funny thing is when I showed them to Earl McClung he couldn't ID Pace and Smokey.
R/
Mooch

[Linda]

Thanks Mooch, good to know the book is (or better: will be...) correct

[Linda]

An appetizer sent to us by Alex from Genesis Publications

STEVEN SPIELBERG & DAMIAN LEWIS JOIN THE RANKS!

Steven Spielberg has contributed a poignant Afterword to ‘Easy Company – In Photographs’. Along with Tom Hanks, Spielberg produced the award-winning HBO series, ‘Band of Brothers’, that presented Easy Company on screen. The producers asked the surviving veterans to advise on historical accuracy when re-telling the story of their journey from D-Day to the capture of Hitler’s ‘impenetrable’ fortress in the Alps, dubbed ‘The Eagles Nest’.

‘[Tom Hanks and I] reflected as we got to know these men that most of us had a friend or relative that had demonstrated the same selflessness, the same dedication to a concern larger than themselves when the nation’s need was greatest. In my case, it was my dad... Getting to know the Easy Company Band of Brothers gave me new perspectives on my father’s character and on his life and times before I came into being.’ Steven Spielberg [from his Afterword].

For the lead role of Easy’s commanding officer, Major Richard Winters, Spielberg and Hanks cast the English actor Damian Lewis. Besides signing all copies in the Deluxe edition of ‘Easy Company – In Photographs’, Lewis has also contributed a fascinating new interview, to be included within every book.

‘There can be nothing more epic or heroic than what they did. I think the actions really do speak for themselves and these photos that you’ve found are unbelievably evocative. I can’t wait to see it fully bound and finished. It’s going to be a fantastic gift for people, or to have in your home.’ Damian Lewis



Matthew Settle and Steven Spielberg on the set of "Band of Brothers"

[Connie]

What's the price of this book in US dollars? I know it's mentioned somewhere, but maybe someone knows it offhand. Thanks,
Connie

[Linda]

Standard copy £ 195 = +/- $ 317

Deluxe copy £ 395 = +/- $ 642

(you can use http://www.gocurrency.com/ to convert currency)

[Connie]

Thnaks Linda. I was pretty sure it was out of my range. How about if any of you buy one, I'll just visit you and look at it!
Connie

[Linda]

Connie, read through this topic and pick your destination... several of us bought it

[Connie]

Well, I guess I have to find the closest person, otherwise air fare will be more than the book!
Connie

[Dutchman]

First reaction: Wow! Great! Never-seen-before-photos! diary extracts! Woohoo!

Second reaction: What the heck? limited edition...luxurious leather...gold page edging and blablabla

Think this will not be a book for the modest purse

Not for my wallet neither, I fear. A bit too expensice for me. Danger: overdrawing of my credit card account.

I have viewed this afternoon for the fourth time parts 9 and 10 of the Band of Brothers TV series, it was just like if they were all at my home. We almost see the actors as the real members of the Easy Company 506th PIR.

But the real heroes are buried at the cemeteries of Colleville and Margraten. We will always honour and remember them, especially tomorrow, the 2nd of November: the Day of the Trespassed in the Catholic Church.

[Linda]

Anyone who subscribed at the Genesis mailinglist received yesterday a special 11th November bulletin (Veterans Day, USA; Remembrance Day, UK; Armistice Day, rest of the world) with an exclusive text excerpt from the contributions made by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg...I copy it below for those who are not subscribed.
ps: If you've subscibed you also get a chance to win a Deluxe copy of Easy Company 506th PIR: In Photographs!



Tom Hanks: In the Second World War the odds were against the vast majority of men in uniform seeing combat, or even being within a few miles of a battlefront. Most who were shipped overseas served their country by pumping gas, typing papers, fixing engines (in the case of my father, hydraulic systems) or other non-glamorous, yet much needed tasks.

Steven Spielberg: They were born in tough times, survived a depression, educated themselves and answered their country’s call to arms without complaint or hesitation.

Tom Hanks: War, in every corner, is a dangerous enterprise and the great majority of the participants would have liked much better to be elsewhere. What, then, can we make of the men who made up the Parachute Infantry Regiments – one of which was the 506th, part of the 101st Airborne Division?

Steven Spielberg: I got to know many of the Easy Company survivors when I was producing the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers with my friend and partner Tom Hanks. We’d read about them in author/historian Stephen Ambrose’s remarkable book of the same title.

Tom Hanks: Here you have not just a group of volunteers, but a collection of men who had to train, test, and earn the right to jump out of airplanes in the dark of night, land behind enemy lines, and begin their part of the war in battle and surrounded. These men seemed to have been campaigning for the label of ‘Hero’.

Steven Spielberg: It’s crystal clear from the images of these young men in training and in combat that they fit the classic definition, but those who survived will deny they were any sort of hero.

Tom Hanks: None of them will claim such status for themselves. They didn’t do anything special. Someone else is always the hero.

Steven Spielberg: What we read seemed so unreal, so unfathomable in current terms, that we worried about making them believable to modern audiences. Would audiences indifferent to Korea, soured on Vietnam and confused about war in the Middle East ever believe these Easy Company paratroopers were real men who did such unbelievable things with such selfless determination?

Tom Hanks: They improvised battle plans when the ones they had went south. They held off defeat in the face of physical and mental tortures. They saved each other’s lives.

Steven Spielberg: We understood that these men represented all that was – and hopefully still is – the best of our society.

Tom Hanks: The surviving brothers of that extraordinary family have been featured and feted at home and abroad and, wonderfully, their celebrity status has spread out to other veterans of the Second World War.

Steven Spielberg: We reflected as we got to know these men that most of us had a friend or relative that came from similar circumstances and demonstrated the same selflessness, the same dedication to a concern larger than themselves when the nation’s need was greatest. In my case, it was my Dad who flew as a combat crewman on Army Air Corps bombers in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Tom Hanks: Ask any living member of Easy Company what they make of their war experience and they will tell you they wouldn’t trade it for anything, nor would they want to repeat it for the world.

Steven Spielberg: With confidence that you’ll find one of these aging heroes, say thanks and elicit a story of greatness or two before they all disappear from among us, I thank you for reading this book. And I thank you for taking the time to appreciate what they went through during World War II.

Tom Hanks: Let’s take them at their word and not burden them with our expectations or definitions. Let’s keep that term to ourselves and be content to flip through the pages of this book, seeing for ourselves in story after story, photo after photo what heroes look like.

Steven Spielberg: Those of us who enjoy freedom around the world stand humbly in their giant shadow.

http://www.genesis-publications.com/boo ... index.html

[padraigmc]

Say has anybody noticed this?

I asked earlier who was who in this photo


Mooch answered: Paul Rogers, Terrence Harris, Joe Ramirez and unknown.
Now the link Poppy provides claims they are Buck Taylor, Terrence Harris, Cecil Pace and Walter Gordon.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 56440.html

Dare I ask, what is right?

Fascinating to see Terrence Salty Harris , i visited his grave in Normandy. That visit to the huge cemetery at Colleville was one of the most emotive parts of the whole trip. It is so sad and yet inspirational in a way i cant describe.

[padraigmc]

Have you come across this before?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... ml?image=1