Quotes
“Band of Brothers’ 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 Kevin Farrell, USA, retired, former chief of military history, US Military Academy at West Point, and author of The Military and the Monarchy
“Based on a personal relationship fostered and
nurtured through years of conversations and directed reflection, Conversations
with Major Dick Winters should be mandatory reading not just for
military leaders but by anyone who wants to improve their leadership style by
learning from a ‘master’…Colonel Kingseed’s unparalleled personal relationship
with Winters permits the rest of us to eavesdrop as a remarkable soldier
recounts his understated leadership journey through war and peace.” Brigadier General Frank H. Akers Jr., USA, retired, president and CEO, Oak Ridge Strategies Group
“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
“Are leaders born or made? The perceptions and the insights
of Band of Brothers’ Major Dick Winters show that in a democracy, true leaders
are cultivated. In the tradition of Lord Moran’s The 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