"As good a rifle company as any in the world. Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry,froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office." -- Back cover.

"We Wanted Those Wings"; Camp Toccoa, July-December 1942 --"Stand Up and Hook Up"; Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks, December 1942-September 1943 -- "Duties of the Latrine Orderly"; Aldbourne, September 1943-March 1944 -- "Look Out Hitler! Here We Come!"; Slapton Sands, Uppottery, April 1-June 5, 1944 -- "Follow Me"; Normandy, June 6, 1944 -- "Move Out!"; Carentan, June 7-July 12, 1944 -- Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions; Aldbourne, July 13-September 16, 1944 -- "Hell's Highway"; Holland, September 17-October 1, 1944 -- The Island; Holland, October 2-November 25, 1944 -- Resting, Recovering, and Refitting; Mourmelon-le-Grand, November 26-December 18, 1944 -- "They Got Us Surrounded--the Poor Bastards"; Bastogne, December 19-31, 1944 -- The Breaking Point; Bastogne, January 1-13, 1945 -- Attack; Noville, January 14-17, 1945 -- The Patrol; Haguenau, January 18-February 23, 1945 -- "The Best Feeling in the World"; Mourmelon, February 25-April 2, 1945 -- Getting to Know the Enemy; Germany, April 2-30, 1945 -- Drinking Hitler's Champagne; Berchtesgaden, May 1-8, 1945 -- The Soldier's Dream Life; Austria, May 8-July 31, 1945 -- Postwar Careers; 1945-1991.