Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers
Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers
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Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers

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  • Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’sBand of Brotherswill be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance.

    Fight Like You Mean to Win

    His comrades called him “Killer.” Of the elite paratroopers who served in the venerated “Band of Brothers” during the Second World War, none were more enigmatic than Ronald Speirs. Rumored to have gunned down enemy prisoners and even one of his own disobedient sergeants, Speirs became a foxhole legend among his troops. But who was the real Lieutenant Speirs?

    InFierce Valor, historians Jared Frederick and Erik Dorr unveil the fuller story of Easy Company’s longest-serving commander. Tested by trials of extreme training, military rivalry, and lost love, Speirs’s international odyssey begins as an immigrant child in Prohibition-era Boston and continues through the bloody campaigns of France, Holland, and Germany. But 1945 did not mark an end to Speirs’s military adventures. Uncovered by sharp scholarship, his lesser-known exploits in Korea, the Cold War, and embattled Laos also come to light for the first time.

    Packed with groundbreaking research,Fierce Valorunveils a compelling portrait of an officer defined by boldness on the battlefield and the inherent costs of war. His story serves as a telling reminder that few soldiers escape the power of their own pasts.Jared Frederickis the author of numerous books, includingDispatches of D-DayandHang Tough(with Erik Dorr). He has appeared on PBS, C-SPAN, and Turner Classic Movies. A former park ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park, Frederick is the host ofReel Historyon YouTube and an instructor of history at Penn State Altoona.

    Erik Dorris the owner of the Gettysburg Museum of History, which houses the largest collection of Easy Company WWII artifacts in the world. The co-author ofHang Tough, Dorr has appeared on the History Channel, Syfy, the Travel Channel, C-SPAN, the Smithsonian Channel, and YouTube’sThe History Underground.
  • Frederick, Jared, Dorr, Erik
  • ISBN: 9781684514038
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