Band of Brothers' accuracy is a bit of a debating topic.
Quite apart from Ambrose's notoriety as an completely and entirely accidental plagiarist, he's also a bit of a hacky historian.
He interviewed some of the E Company men, but on occasions the ones he didn't interview have different recollections of events.
And then he deliberately "fictionalises" some of them stuff.
And then the TV crew gets hold of it all...
There is a site somewhere which details some of the more noticeable errors and omissions.
One big one I remember is that the young chap who was shot in the throat by a sniper and died a couple of days later (2nd episode?) in fact was shot in the shoulder, recovered, was demobbed, re-enlisted, fought in the Korean war, was demobbed, re-enlisted, taught at jump school and only then died of cancer.
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Date: 2009-01-02 07:06 pm (UTC)Quite apart from Ambrose's notoriety as an completely and entirely accidental plagiarist, he's also a bit of a hacky historian.
He interviewed some of the E Company men, but on occasions the ones he didn't interview have different recollections of events.
And then he deliberately "fictionalises" some of them stuff.
And then the TV crew gets hold of it all...
There is a site somewhere which details some of the more noticeable errors and omissions.
One big one I remember is that the young chap who was shot in the throat by a sniper and died a couple of days later (2nd episode?) in fact was shot in the shoulder, recovered, was demobbed, re-enlisted, fought in the Korean war, was demobbed, re-enlisted, taught at jump school and only then died of cancer.
~Katie