When and where does the story Band of Brothers take place. Does the author come right out and tell you or do you have to use clues from the story to figure it out?

Answer 1

First of all there are two different novels- both with involved plots. I am only familiar ( in a browsing way) with one of them. This was a novel by Ernest K Gann. It was NOT a war novel but had detective overtones. a group of associated but not commercially associated ( they worked for different lines) Commercial Air pilots banded together ( hence the title) to investigate a suspicious accident which the airmen turned gumshoes claimed was No Accident. The thought that mature responsible men would join hands in a sort of Three Musketeers sort of plot line boggles the mind.. if they got caught ( all these guys seemed to be ex-Intelligence types) they could be blackballed for Life. This took place ( the story) in the seventies and involved modern Jetliners. The other Band of Brothers is about Paratroops or Infantry in the ETO and I am sure there are locations given , as would be necessary in battle maps, etc. It is in Europe, not the Pacific theater, as the enemy is the German Reich. They are two different novels.