Review Robert Keeling 3 Mar 2014 - 06:58
Rob's daily Band Of Brothers look-back comes to one of the series' most powerful and striking episodes...
Read the previous part in this series, here.
The events depicted in this episode take place during the bloody Battle of the Bulge, a last-ditch German offensive in the Ardennes forest which caught Allied forces by surprise and proved to be the deadliest battle of the war for the United States Army. For me, this is one of the most powerful and striking episodes of the entire series. In Bastogne, we find Easy Company facing some truly terrible conditions and struggling against the odds to hold their position. At the outset, the real Easy veterans remind us that they were lacking in equipment and ammo, couldn’t get resupplied and the German forces had them zeroed in
Upon entering Bastogne, Easy Company had no winter clothes, next to no food,...
Rob's daily Band Of Brothers look-back comes to one of the series' most powerful and striking episodes...
Read the previous part in this series, here.
The events depicted in this episode take place during the bloody Battle of the Bulge, a last-ditch German offensive in the Ardennes forest which caught Allied forces by surprise and proved to be the deadliest battle of the war for the United States Army. For me, this is one of the most powerful and striking episodes of the entire series. In Bastogne, we find Easy Company facing some truly terrible conditions and struggling against the odds to hold their position. At the outset, the real Easy veterans remind us that they were lacking in equipment and ammo, couldn’t get resupplied and the German forces had them zeroed in
Upon entering Bastogne, Easy Company had no winter clothes, next to no food,...
- 3/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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