Description

In these colorful, insightful profiles, Col. Cole Kingseed - former chief of military history at West Point and former collaborator with Maj. Dick Winters of Band of Brothers - tells the stirring history of the U.S. Army through the soldiers, from boots to brass, who have fought, led, bled, and died for their country since 1775.

Highlights include

Washington and the strategy that won the Revolutionary War
Alexander Hamilton's indispensable role as aide to Washington
Grant's against-the-odds emergence as Union general-in-chief
Pershing and the Doughboys in France during World War I
Patton's three-year tour in Hawaii
Eisenhower and MacArthur in the Philippines
Eisenhower's greatest decisions of World War II
George Marshall and his knack for finding leaders
The 2nd Ranger Battalion on D-Day
Vernon J. Baker, among the first African-Americans awarded the Medal of Honor for World War II heroism
Hal Moore and the Battle of Ia Drang of We Were Soldiers Once fame

Leadership and character are at the heart of Brotherhood of the Brave, which spotlights the warriors and the wars that have defined the U.S. Army for 250 years. These stories and lessons, told and distilled by one of the army's great historians, will resonate with soldiers and civilians alike.