Major Dick Winters was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania in
1918. One of the initial officers assigned to Easy Company of the
101st Airborne, Winters jumped into France on D-Day and commanded
the unit now known as the Band of Brothers. He led his men through
the Battle of the Bulge and captured Berchtesgaden, Hitler's
Bavarian retreat. Released from military service in November 1945,
he returned briefly to active duty during the Korean War, then
spent his life on a small Pennsylvania farm and was a highly
successful businessman. He passed away in 2011.
Cole C. Kingseed is a thirty-year Army veteran who served in
a variety of command and staff positions. He earned his M.A. in
national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War
College and his Ph.D. in history from Ohio State. He taught at West
Point, where he served as chief of military history for four years.
Kingseed is the author of thirty-seven articles on corporate and
military leadership and such books as Eisenhower and the Suez
Crisis of 1956 and Old Glory Stories: Combat Leadership in World
War II. He is president of his own leadership consulting firm, The
Brecourt Leadership Experience, Inc., whose clients, to name a few,
include General Electric, FreddieMac, International Paper, and
Bayer Corporation.
Praise for Beyond Band of Brothers
“There is a saying that 'Great leaders are born not made.' Such a
man is Dick Winters... A beautifully written book about a truly
great leader. This riveting read clearly reflects Dick Winters's
solid character, great integrity, and unerring judgment in critical
battlefield situations.”—Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore,
co-author of We Were Soldiers Once...And Young“Its modesty, its
candor, and its insights into the nature of front-line leadership
and the fears and behaviors of men in combat make this memoir a
classic ranking with Charles MacDonald's Company Commander.”—Dennis
Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel“Dick Winters epitomizes the
finest attributes of American citizen-soldiers….a poignant,
riveting story with timeless application to the study of leadership
in war.”—Colonel Lance Betros, Chairman, Department of History,
U.S. Military Academy, editor of West Point: Two Centuries and
Beyond“Winters's leadership inspired his soldiers to fight
courageously under the most difficult and challenging conditions of
battle. [An] extraordinary memoir.”—H.R. McMaster, author of
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
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