Saving Private Ryan

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June 6, 1944. Military forces converge on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive battles of World War II. America would call it a victory. History would call it D-Day. But for Captain John Miler and his squad of young soldiers, this fateful day would become something much more. Washington has sent them on a personal mission to save one life. One paratrooper missing in action. One soldier who has already lost three brothers in the war. Captain Miller and his men quickly realize this is not a simple rescue operation. It is a test of their honor and their duty. Their sole obsession - and their last hope for redemption. In a war of devastating proportions, saving one life could make all the difference in the world Other books about World War II

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Shaving Ryan's Privates.......2004-05-03

Saving Private Ryan is a excellent easy read. It is very descriptive and quite explicit. Saving Private Ryan has a lot of profanity. It doesnt describe the gory parts that much but does metion them detailed. For example at the beginning of this book Miller was dragging a wounded soldier along the beach and then rested behind an X for a second, and then a morter crashed right behind him causing him to stand up again and start dragging the soldier more, towards the seawall. It says that Miller felt that he became more stonger but when he looked back at the soldier half the guys body was gone, flying in the air in some other direction. Saving Private Ryan is a great military book that is very easy to understand. At the beginning of the book it starts right away with action that is very extreme and doesn't stop. I reccomend this book.

Excellent Book.......2003-06-28

I absolutely loved this book. I couldn't put it down. I have never seen the movie, so I can not compare.

Incredible story.......2003-06-20

Only being a novelization of the film, I was seriously impressed. Though lacking the incredible effects of the motion picture, the book tells a more detailed story of the men and their lives. You actually get to know some of them, where they come from, etc. Things that did not make sense in the movie started to make sense in the book. Max Allan Collins did a wonderful job of conveying emotional scenes, as well. I fought myself for dry eyes several times while reading.

If you liked Saving Private Ryan, the movie, read this book. You'll see what I mean.

Private Ryan is worth Saving.......2003-04-19

I think this book is very well written. First of all, the book develops all the characters extremely well. Unlike the movie, where most of the characters' backgrounds remain unknown, when each soldier is introduced into the story their name, rank, and some background is provided. The way the author described the characters makes the reader feel they know each soldier personally.
Another strong point of the book that can not be obtained through watching the movie is the thoughts of the soldiers. Not only is the reader provided with the soldiers thoughts in battle situations, but also their thoughts about the purpose of their mission.
The author does an excellent job of describing the hellish atmosphere of war. In the movie, some of the battle scenes are so complex and distorted that it is somewhat difficult to understand the horror that the soldiers go through in battles. In the book, the reader is provided with the soldiers' thoughts and also their feelings when wounded.
One of the few things I would change about this book would be a better explanation of some of the military terms and tactics. Some areas of the book seemed unclear because I did not understand some of the termanology.

Graphic novel (not in that sense), well written..........2002-03-14

I only have one complaint. Collins has messed with the dialogue too much, and nearly every other word spoken is a four-letter one. I don't recall much profanity in the Spielberg classic. However, the descriptions of combat carnage and violence (not to mention the gripping human story) are superbly told by Max, though he may watch his mouth a bit.

Saving Private Ryan, The Men, The Mission, The Movie : A Steven Spielberg Movie

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"But if we could do just one good thing . . . "
Eh..............Saving Private Ryan
Eh......SPR
Very interesting
this is a very good story

Saving Private Ryan, The Men, The Mission, The Movie : A Steven Spielberg Movie
Linda Sunshine
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 155704371X

Amazon.com

The photos and snippets of dialog and celebrity quotes in this tie-in book to Steven Spielberg's D-day film Saving Private Ryan are a continuation of the movie by other means. (Be forewarned that the book reveals one major plot point concerning Matt Damon's Private Ryan character.) If the color pictures look a bit washed-out compared to, say, Disney's The Art of Mulan, that's the idea--Spielberg renounced his razzle-dazzle visual magic in order to convey a brute reality honestly. "I didn't want to shoot the picture as a Hollywood gung ho Rambo kind of extravaganza," Spielberg says in the book. "Janusz [Kaminski, the cinematographer] stripped all the glossy filters and the filaments from the lenses so they were just like the kind of lenses they actually used in the Second World War. We shot a lot of the war sequences with the shutter speed used by those Bell and Howell cameras of the 1940s for making newsreels.... If we've done our jobs, [the audience] will think we were actually on the beach on D-day." Time magazine opined that the film boasts "quite possibly the greatest combat sequence ever made."

The photos in this book give an inkling of that impact, and also evince the intense empathy for the GIs that won Spielberg the allegiance of the leading historian Stephen E. Ambrose, whose stunning book Citizen Soldiers was the director's prime influence. "I wanted to write about the lives of the GIs," Ambrose said in an Amazon.com interview. "Books are always written from the generals' point of view, but I'm sick of the generals and their point of view. It's more refreshing to be with the guys who did the fighting." After seeing the film or reading this book (or the novelization Saving Private Ryan), you may not feel refreshed, but you will be enlightened. And you will immediately want to read two other sagas of ordinary heroism by Ambrose, D-day and Undaunted Courage, his ode to Meriwether Lewis.

Saving Private Ryan is, in a sense, a companion volume to Tim O'Brien's masterpiece Going After Cacciato, about soldiers hunting down a deserter during the Vietnam War. Spielberg's story of GIs risking their lives hunting down an endangered dogface to save his life helps measure what it was that Americans lost between World War II and Vietnam. --Tim Appelo

Book Description

Over 50,000 sold--the only illustrated companion book to the extraodinary film. Includes excerpts from Stephen Ambrose's books, screenplay extracts, and commentary by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Janusz Kaminski and others. 100 illustrations, 130 color plates.

Customer Reviews:

"But if we could do just one good thing . . . ".......2004-04-04

I think Spielberg's a genius. There, I've said it. He takes simple men, surely John Miller, Captain, 2nd Ranger Battalion is just that, a simple man, and paints a canvas of such detail of Armageddon, putting these simple men all over the painting. Hell. The end of the world. Good versus evil. Call it what you may. "I'm a history teacher," he says in the movie in one extraordinarily tense scene. "I teach history in a small high school in Pennsylvania. . . .when I'm done here I don't know if I can go back to it."

I'm reminded of another 'simple man' that came from Pennsylvania in novel lore. Lieutenant Harry Brubaker, the lawyer who flies F-9 Panther Jets in Michner's brief story about the carnage in Korea, 'Bridges at To Ko Ri.'

But the point is Spielberg tells us that they were all simple men and we don't believe him at first. We keep looking for Arnie Schwarznegger or Chuck Norris or The Rock. But they are and were normal guys, guys from Brooklyn New York and Brooklyn Michigan. Guys from towns you never heard of in Iowa, where Jimmy Ryan and his brothers came from. Just guys in the greatest carnage the world ever knew. And Spielberg shows us what they did. They changed the world.

The five Sullivan brothers all went down with their ship in the middle of the war and after that the powers that be would not commit one brother in a theater of combat where another brother was also serving in harm's way. So here, one of Jimmy Ryan's brothers is killed in the Pacific and one brother is killed in Anzio Beach. And Sean Ryan is killed in the landing at Omaha Beach. And Captain John Miller and a squad of men he picks are asked to find him to send him home.

A wonderful book to compliment a movie that should be preserved forever about an ubelievable body of men and women. "Was I a good man," asks James Ryan 50 years later? My Dad asked me the same question a few years ago. Five stars is not enough. Larry Scantlebury.

Eh..............Saving Private Ryan.......2002-03-12

Eh......SPR.......2002-03-12

This Movie Is Great It Has The MG-42 Bullets Going Right Through The Water On The Beach.The Blood,Gore,Gun Realism Is Great.It Also Is A Heart Touching Movie.The Action Is Great,The Guns,The Cool Guys,And The Nazis.If You Like SPR(Saving Private Ryan)Than Play The Game MoH:AA(Medal Of Honor:Allied Assault)For PC It Has The Same Weapons And The Same Missions Like The Real WWII.Good Luck

Very interesting.......1999-07-24

Saving Private Ryan and The Triumph and the Glory have sparked an interest in me about WWII. The novel isn't quite as good as the movie but anyway this book is a great behind the scenes look at the making of a terrific movie.

this is a very good story.......1999-07-21

I think this story is a very good story it really shows how the war really whent. my favrit character in this story was mellish well i'v seen the movie and i think he is the cutest i also like capazo he was really cool i think uhpum was a bit of a wimp but apart from that i think it was really cool.If i was to give this movie/book a raiting out of 100 i would give it 100 becaust it is so good.

"Now You Know": Reactions After Seeing Saving Private Ryan

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Very Moving!
'Now You Do Know'
Outstandind Book!
For anyone who saw and loved the movie
Thank You

"Now You Know": Reactions After Seeing Saving Private Ryan
Jesse Kornbluth
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1557043841

Book Description

This inspiring gift "remembrance" book features about 100 selections from the more than 30,000 messages posted on America Online in reaction to seeing Steven Spielberg's powerful film-and gives a new understanding of the men who fought in World War II.

This unique remembrance book, illustrated with historical photographs, is a testament both to the movie that has profoundly affected so many lives, and to the power of the online medium, which allows people instant access to one another. Here are people of various ages, races, religions, and political beliefs who all feel that this timeless movie has generated a sea change in how we think about war, war movies, and the men who fought for freedom. Also included are blank lined pages for readers to enter their own reactions.

Excerpted from a message in the book: "My grandfather, who is a 72-year-old naval veteran of WWII, never really talked about his experience during the war.... Last weekend, we saw 'Saving Private Ryan' together, the whole family. His face wore a look of indifference and doubt. But in the end, he cried. I have never seen my grandfather cry; but on that day he did. We left the movie theater and walked in the rain to our cars and the tears still fell. He had only one comment: 'Now you know how it really was for me...' He has yet to say anything more...."

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Very Moving!.......2000-02-27

I teach a film history class and Saving Private Ryan is one of the films we watch and discuss. This collection of letters is very moving. The variety of reactions and emotions is very moving. The letters were impressive and they fit in well while teaching the film. If you teach a film class or plan to use Saving Private Ryan in the classroom I highly recommend this collection to supplement your teaching.

'Now You Do Know'.......1999-11-09

'Now You Know' pretty much sums up the content of this book and the epic motion picture that inspired it. Every page is a human story, a story of everyday people changed by the unspeakable horror of war. One cannot help but be moved by the sheer honesty of the reactions evoked by this film. With the royalties going to the National D-Day Museum let us hope that the messages of this film and book continue to be remembered, for the sake of our future, and for the people who gave their lives for our freedom...

Outstandind Book!.......1999-10-21

(REVEALS INFO!) I thought this book was great but the movie was a lot better in my opinion. Saving Privite Ryan the novel was about a 4 on a 1-5 scale (5 being the best). My favorite character is Reiben because he carries a BeretaAutomaticRifle and he does not die. This book made me appreciate what the men of our country have done and I don't look down upon older people any more;I would like to thank them for it.

For anyone who saw and loved the movie.......1999-08-26

"Now You Know" is a first rate little hard-bound book concerning viewers' reactions to the movie "Saving Private Ryan." It is clearly a labor of love and all profits are being donated to the National D-Day Museum. Anyone who saw the movie and loved it as I did will want this book. The viewers' express their observations with heart-felt emotion and insight. It would be rare to find something like this anywhere else.

Thank You.......1999-07-23

On June 6, 2000, The National D-Day Museum will open its doors in New Orleans, LA. It will be the only Museum in the U.S. dedicated to telling the stories of the amphibious invasions or "D-Days" of World War II. The royalties and earnings frm Now You Know are going to be dedicated to this Museum

The stories told in Now You Know will be mirrored in the Museum. Ordinary People who did the extraordinary. They came not to conquer, but to liberate, not to loot or destroy but to bring life and freedom.

Now You Know has helped me realize the debt that we owe that generation...a debt they never tried to collect. It has also helped me realize the opportunity I lost when my father died. A chance to say thanks.

Book Description

This deluxe songbook features 9 piano solo selections from the Academy Award-winning Steven Spielberg film, including the moving "Hymn to the Fallen." Also includes full-color photos from the film, historical information and background on the making of the film, plus commentary from Steven Spielberg and cast.

Customer Reviews:

Saving Private Ryan.......2007-08-13

STUPID ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! - Does not show very clearly that it is a music book not the novel !!!!!!!!! Very upset about this purchase!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent Book.......2003-06-28

First book by this author that I have read. I have never seen the movie but absolutely loved the book.

Battleground: The making of Saving Private Ryan in Ireland

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Battleground: The making of Saving Private Ryan in Ireland
Stephen Eustace
Manufacturer: Milestone L. Press
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Newsweek Magazine July 13 1998 Saving Private Ryan * Linda Tripp

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Newsweek Magazine July 13 1998 Saving Private Ryan * Linda Tripp
Newsweek Magazine
Manufacturer: Newsweek Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ON1SUY

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Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
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ASIN: B000JD382A

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Saving Private Ryan
David James
Manufacturer: Boxtree, Limited
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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Photographs by David James.

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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Photographs by David James.
Steven. Spielberg
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N79XBC

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Customer Reviews:

Not a good songbook.......1998-11-24

This songbook is not recommended by me. The chords are strange and they don't sound right, and most of the songs are rap anyway so they don't even have music.

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Good Standard Crosswords

USA Crosswords Puzzle Book 32 (USA Crosswords)
Charles Preston
Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0399527877
Release Date: 2002-07-02

Book Description

* The best puzzles from the pages of USA Today!
* A great value for crossword fans
* Includes 60 puzzles

Customer Reviews:

Good Standard Crosswords.......2000-04-28

The crosswords are good for an intermediate player. They are not quite as hard as NY Times crosswords, but they are imaginative and fun.

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Between dealing with difficult people and navigating through unexpected and complicated situations, the typical day at the office involves making countless choices on how to engage with others. To succeed in the long run, good work relationships must be carefully developed and maintained.

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A snappy, conversational style combines with dozens of practical tools and examples to make a fascinating, essential book.

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Applicable.......2007-03-09

If youhave to deal with any of these type people you need to read this book

A Waste of Money.......2007-02-06

This book has very simplistic ideas and lacks the constructive solutions that I hoped to learn. For example, her advice for dealing with people prone to explosive temper is "If you stay around someone and feel you are walking on eggshells, find ways to handle the eggs--and that person--more gently so the shells don't break." Reading her advice made me wonder what kind of education and experience she has that qualifies her to write such a book. Interestingly enough, there's very little information about that in her bio. It looks like her Ph.D is in journalism or English. I would love to send this book back and get my money back. I would probably spend it better on a book written by an educated, credentialed, psychologist who understands the difference between constructively handling people with behavior problems versus enabling them to continue to abuse others and make work life hades.

The Rodney King guide to the Workplace.......2006-09-04

This book is really great; I call it the Rodney King guide to the workplace because it really is about "Can't we all just get along?" And, if we can't....then it gives you the guidelines to follow to see heads roll, or sometimes, how to choose to lose your own head on the chopping block.

I like that it doesn't give a "pat" answer, but provides several best/worse case scenarios & allows you to think the problem out, hopefully BEFORE you encounter it. If you are in the middle of dealing with one of these treasured co-workers, then this guide will be very helpful in giving you strategy for dealing with the problem in a real life way.

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Helpful for Anyone who Works with Humans.......2006-09-03

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Definitely good book........2005-05-28

I like the stories in the book. Those are prime examples of people I saw and I'm seeing every day. The book is excellent for understanding different people and different situations in which you might interact with them. Obviously the book is written by someone who understands people's mind.

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