Conversations with Major Dick Winters

"Are leaders born or made? The perceptions and the insights of Band of Brothers's Major Dick Winters show that in a democracy true leaders are cultivated. In the tradition of Lord Moran's Anatomy of Courage, this is an anatomy of leadership, of courage, of discipline, and above all of self-knowledge."--Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century and Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare

"Colonel Cole Kingseed has captured the essence of a great military leader as only a soldier-historian can. Dick Winters was an extraordinary combat leader and Kingseed's extended conversations with him tell us why. Winters possessed a unique and powerful combination of humility, integrity, courage, compassion, resilience, and determination to win."--Major General H.R. McMaster, USA, Commanding General, Fort Benning, Georgia and author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

"Band of Brothers's Major Dick Winters is arguably the most recognizable American hero to contemporary America in large measure because of Colonel Cole Kingseed's scholarship. Conversations with Major Dick Winters takes the Dick Winters story to a new level and makes his legacy even more powerful, more personal, and more compelling to a whole new generation."--Colonel (Ret.) Kevin Farrell, USA, former Chief of Military History, U.S. Military Academy at West Point and author of The Military and the Monarchy