'Popeye' Wynn at vocational school before they both signed up a fact not eluded to in the mini-series. We do learn, however, that Shifty had befriended Robert E. Shifty was a natural born story-teller, and this technique works well, especially when Shifty wrestles with complex questions of his wartime experiences: 'How am I going to explain all this?'Īs with other Easy Company memoirs, fewer pages are devoted to Shifty's early life before delving right into joining the paratroopers.

The author chose to write in Shifty's voice, keeping his local colloquialisms and fill-in words, to give readers the sense that Shifty is telling his own story. Although he had spoken several times with Shifty on the phone, the two had never met face-to-face. Author Marcus Brotherton offers fans a unique biography of Shifty, and, perhaps the first posthumous account of an Easy Company Toccoa veteran.īrotherton's biography of Shifty is unique for a few reasons. His sharpshooting skills and uncanny ability to memorize rugged terrain, and spot a bush that was not present the day before was highlighted in the HBO mini-series. As a boy, the soft-spoken homespun Appalachian from Clinchco, Virginia was more at home in the woods hunting rabbits, than most of us are on our living room couches watching TV. Darrell 'Shifty' Powers needs no introduction. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.įor Band of Brothers fans world-wide, Sgt. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click 'Continue without accepting' to reject, or 'Customize Cookies' to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

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