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Time to bump the book thread.
I'm a sucker for any Band of Brothers stuff, and recently picked up Call of Duty, an autobiography by Buck Compton. It's pretty clear that Buck has some issues with the way he was portrayed in the miniseries, especially the whole combat fatigue thing (he's shown wigging out after his buddies get their legs blown off at Bastogne); he says he really was hurt, and implies he was removed from the company because of his outspoken criticism of Company CO Dike. He also hated Lewis Nixon's guts (Winters' buddy), which I found interesting. It seems pretty clear that these two things were his primary motivation for writing the book, the rest reads pretty much like an old man telling you his life story in middling detail. But it's an interesting life, and a good read.
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