英文版圖書介紹
Band of BrotherAmazon.co.uk Review
As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band of Brothers to tell the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from gruelling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas", on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest", where they drank the his (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Robert Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic CO who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral. The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a GI by his CO for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle". --Tim Appelo
Amazon.com Audibook Review
The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose's tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Lou Schuler
電影版
基本信息
Band of Brothers 英文名稱：Band of Brothers
發行時間：2003年
地區：美國
語言：英語
電影導演：湯姆·漢克斯 Tom Hanks
麥可·塞羅蒙 Mikael Salomon
電影演員：湯姆·漢克斯 Tom Hanks
大衛·修蒙David Schwimmer
德克斯特·弗萊徹Dexter Fletcher Dan van Husen
科林·漢克斯Colin Hanks
唐尼·沃爾伯格 Donnie Wahlberg Kirk Acevedo Doug Allen
起源
2002年12月11日，一位美國老兵萊斯特·哈什伊悄然辭世—他曾是美國101空軍部隊506團Ｅ連里最年輕的士兵。直到離開人世的那一刻，萊斯特都不曾忘懷作為在諾曼第登入先鋒中的一員的難忘經歷，還有和Ｅ連的戰友並肩作戰用血淚凝結的珍貴回憶。萊斯特把關於Ｅ連的一切告訴了一個叫做史蒂芬·安布洛斯的老人，於是有了一本叫做《兄弟連》的書。1998年，在電影《拯救大兵瑞恩》宣傳期間，一個參加過“二戰”的老兵親手向湯姆·漢克斯贈送了這本小說。讀完之後，深受感動的湯姆·漢克斯又把書轉贈給了斯蒂文·史匹柏，兩人一拍即合，遂決定將其拍成電視劇集。經過數月的艱苦拍攝，這部長達10個小時、耗資1．2億美元的“史上最貴”電視劇集終於誕生。
簡介
Band of Brothers 繼《拯救大兵雷恩》後，好萊塢大導演史匹柏與兩屆奧斯卡影帝湯姆·漢克斯再度合作，推出有史以來造價最昂貴的電視連續劇《兄弟連》(Band of Brothers)，這個由二戰期間美軍在歐洲大陸作戰的真人真事改編而成的故事，總計拍攝成本高達1億2000萬美元。湯姆·漢克斯的兒子柯林漢克在劇中出演了重要角色。
在1998年為電影《拯救大兵瑞恩》宣傳期間，男主角湯姆·漢克斯曾收到一名參加過二戰的老兵親手贈送的一本小說《戰火兄弟連》。讀完之後深受感動的湯姆·漢克斯後來把這部小說轉贈給史匹柏，後者則後悔“沒有早點看到這本書”，因此兩人決定將其拍成電視劇。
6月6日是二次世界大戰盟軍進攻法國北部的57周年紀念日，湯姆漢克斯特別選擇這個有意義的日子，當天，湯姆·漢克斯站在當年美國首度攻擊的海岸上為二次大戰電視影集《Band of Brothers》揭開序幕。
《Band of Brothers》是描寫美國101空軍部隊的一個連隊Easy Company的真實故事，他們參與了盟軍進攻首日的任務，以及其後整個歐洲的戰事。全片是由Stephen Ambrose的著作改編而成，他曾與Easy Company倖存者進行長時間的訪談、並研究美國大兵的家書後，寫下了這本暢銷作品。
自從1998年湯姆·漢克斯與史蒂芬史匹柏合作《搶救大兵瑞恩》之後，兩人便構思了這部以二次大戰為內容的電視影集，去年在英國經過八個月的拍攝，其中動用了五百個有台詞的演員、一萬個臨時演員，由八個導演共同完成，號稱美國電視史上耗資最龐大的一個電視影集。
