Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers

How Does a book that starts at the Fifty-fourth Annual Emmy Awards in 2002, continue on to inform the reader about D-day, 1944; Bastogne and The Battle of the Bulge; Operation Market Garden; and Berchtesgaden and Hitler's "Eagle's Nest"? The transition is a simple one when one man has lived through it all.
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers; by Larry Alexander, was a fantastic book. The Author helps the story to flow, keeping it interseting for the reader.

A brief history is given of the Winters family and Richard Winters's childhood. His story is then told in more detail after he joins the army.
On D-day, June 6, 1944, Richard Winters is a 1st Lieutenant. By the end of WWII he was a major in the 101st Airborne division.
The book follows him as he strruggles through the war with his men, striving to be a good leader.
The reader is then shown his life after the war while he tries to adjust to civillian life after having lived through some of the fiercest fighting in the European theater.
His story then changes with the introduction of Stephen E. Ambrose, an author and historian.
Ambrose, with Winters's and several other men of Easy companies' help, writes Easy's story in a book entitled "Band of Brothers."
The Final chapters of Major Winters's biography explain how the rights to the book were bought by one Tom Hanks, who proceeded to make a ten-part miniseries that would win and Emmy for "Best Miniseries".

Larry Alexander does a fantastic job of telling Major Winters's story.
He had also written the story as just that, a story. It was written as a novel would be, with a lot of dialouge, this kept the story flowing and interesting.

I have only two complaints.
1. The use of military jargon without explaining all of the terms, there was a glossary in the back but it did not include a few words/abbreviations.
2. The foul language. It was very bad near the end when they began making the miniseries.

Other than those two factors the book was fantastic. It gave a glimpse into the life of a very patriotic, hardworking, humble man. The Biggest Brother.