I read the book in college as our "book report" reading for an awesome WWII history class (which also allowed me the opportunity to interview my next-door neighbor, who showed up in the Ardennes Forest three days before the Battle of Bulge at 18 years old, having fired his rifle five times before that--absolutely unbelievable), and it was right about then that the miniseries came out. I watched it in college after I found it, a nugget of testosterone on my roommate's incredibly chick-flick oriented movie shelf. Fantastic series. I could barely stop myself from watching it at times. The interviews--some of them, I must admit, were tearjerkers.
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God, I love SDO on Sundays.
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