''We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers'' is a military non-fiction book published in 2009 by Penguin/Berkley-Caliber publishers. Journalist Marcus Brotherton is credited with the book's authorship. Brotherton also co-wrote ''Call of Duty'' with Lt.

Lynn "Buck" Compton Lynn Davis Compton (December 31, 1921 – February 25, 2012), known as Buck Compton, was an American jurist, police officer, and soldier. In his legal career, he served as a prosecutor and California Court of Appeal judge, and is most nota ...

. The book lists 20 main contributors all of whom were members of

Easy Company E Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", is a company in the United States Army. The company was referred to as "Easy" after the radio call for "E" in the ph ...

506th PIR The 506th Infantry Regiment, originally designated the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (506th PIR) during World War II, is an airborne light infantry regiment of the United States Army. Currently a parent regiment under the U.S. Army Regimen ...

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, the company of soldiers that has come to be known as the original Band of Brothers. The company's nickname, Band of Brothers, was taken from the 1992 book of the same name authored by historian

Stephen Ambrose Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Or ...

that was later turned into an award-winning HBO miniseries by

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and

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in 2001. The 20 contributors were all alive when the book was released in May 2009, except Norman Neitzke, who died December 8, 2008, at age 82, while the book was in the final stages of production. The title of the book comes from 1 Thessalonians 4:17: "Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."

Contributors

* Roderick Bain * Don Bond * Roy Gates * Ed Joint * Joseph Lesniewski * Al Mampre * Earl McClung * Norman Neitzke * Ed "Doc" Pepping * Frank Perconte *

Darrell "Shifty" Powers Staff Sergeant Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Powers was por ...

* Frank J. Soboleski * Herb Suerth, Jr. (president of the Men of Easy Company Association at the time of publication) * Amos "Buck" Taylor * Ed Tipper * Bill Wingett * Hank Zimmerman The book traces the life stories of the contributors through basic training and

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Major campaigns of Easy Company include the

Normandy Campaign Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Norma ...

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in the Netherlands, the

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, Hagenau, Ruhr/ Germany, and occupation duties in Austria. Three essays are provided at the back of the book in appendix form. The essays, titled Memories of my father, are from adult-children of deceased members of Easy Company. Mike Sobel talks about his father,

Herbert Sobel Herbert Maxwell Sobel Sr. (26 January 1912 – 30 September 1987) was an American commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Sobel was portrayed ...

. C. Susan Finn talks about her father, Robert Burr Smith, and George Luz Jr. and Lana Luz Miller (brother and sister) talk about their father, George Luz Sr. The book made the ''New York Times'' Extended Bestseller list for Hardcover Nonfiction the sales week of June 28, 2009. The following week it climbed from #34 to #28. In July 2009 the book reached #10 on the New York Times Bestseller list for Political books.
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* {{Band of Brothers (miniseries) 2009 non-fiction books American biographies 101st Airborne Division