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The first list below are books related to the 101st Airborne that I have read and can therefore recommend firsthand.  Some of the books may be reference material for uniforms, equipment, units, etc., while others may be unit histories, battle details, or an individual soldiers story.  Some are better than others, but all have important details on the Airborne.  Mark Bando's books are a wealth of information on all of the 101st units of WWII and the action they saw, I highly recommend them.

The second list are books still related to the 101st Airborne, but that I have not read yet.  Nevertheless I wanted to mention them here as published reference material on the 101st Airborne. 

If you would like to recommend any additional books to add to the list, please contact the webmaster at the email address listed at the bottom of the page.

Book Alert - A Must Read!!!

It's finally here!!!  The long awaited release of the book on the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment by my friend Ian Gardner and his co-author Roger Day.  Osprey Publishing released the book in April of this year. 

"Tonight We Die As Men" is a highly researched book on the 3rd Battalion of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division.  It covers the unit from it's inception at Camp Toccoa, Georgia through it's actions in Normandy for the D-Day campaign.  The title of the book comes from the famous words of the battalion commander, LTC Robert Wolverton to his men before boarding their planes on the eve of the invasion.  His words in their entirety were later to be called "Wolverton's Prayer" and can be found on the "Airborne Prayers" page of this website.

I have read the original manuscript, I have spent a good deal of time with Ian discussing his research on the subject and have even toured the battlefields with Ian as my guide.  This book will be, in my opinion, one of the most highly researched and detail filled books ever written about any single unit of the 101st Airborne Division in WWII.  I highly recommend it to any 101st Airborne enthusiast.

There is also a companion DVD available seperately called "The Forgotten Battalion", click on the banner below to visit The Forgotten Battalion website.

Books I've Read And Recommend:

Rendevous With Destiny - Leonard Rapport & Arthur Norwood Jr.

D-Day With The Screaming Eagles - George Koskimaki

Hell's Highway - George Koskimaki

101st Airborne, The Screaming Eagles At Normandy - Mark Bando

Vanguard of the Crusade - Mark Bando

Avenging Eagles - Mark Bando

At The Point Of No Return - Michel De Trez

The Cow Spoke French - William True and Deryck Tufts True

The Simple Sounds of Freedom - Thomas H. Taylor

Index to the General Orders, 506th PIR - Brandon T. Wiegand

Currahee Scrapbook - 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

The Battled Bastards of Bastogne - George Koskimaki

The Filthy 13 - Richard Kilblane & Jake McNiece

Currahee - Donald Burgett

Freedom Found - Robert Webb

It Was My War - I'll remember it the way I want to! - G. William Sefton

Other Related Books To Read:

The Battled Bastards of Bastogne - George Koskimaki

Seven Roads To Hell - Donald Burgett

Beyond The Rhine - Donald Burgett

Look Out Below - Francis L. Sampson

Trial By Combat - Thomas M. Rice

Parachute Infantry - David K. Webster

Forest Guth - Michel De Trez

Paratrooper - Gerard M. Devlin

Fighting Fox Company - Bill Brown

Four Stars Of Hell - Captain Lawrence Critchell

The Last First Sergeant - Layton Black

Skyriders, History of the 327 & 401 Glider Infantry - James McDonough & Richard Gardner

Night Drop - S.L.A. Marshall

America's Finest II - Gary Howard

Biggest Brother - The Life of Major Dick Winters - Larry Alexander

Beyond Band of Brothers - Major Dick Winters

Fighting With The Screaming Eagles - Robert M. Bowen