"Saving Private Ryan" by Max Allen Collins, is the story of an Army squad in World War II that is assigned to rescue Private James Ryan whose four other brothers have been killed on the beaches of Normandy. The military decided that was too great a loss for any one family, so they decide to have James Ryan found and sent home. This story tells how the GI company goes through many skirmishes and dangers to find and rescue Private Ryan, even at the threat of losing their own lives.
The novel was based on the motion picture starring Tom Hanks and is very similar to the movie. While you watch the movie, you get to see with your eyes the fierce fighting that went on during the war as well as the battles the group fought while trying to rescue Ryan. But with the book, you not only get to see what the characters are facing, you get to know what they are thinking. The book also goes into greater detail of the background of the main characters, so you get to learn more about them—where they came from, what they felt, what they had been through. You almost knew what made them tick.
However, one thing the movie was able to capture that was stronger than the book was not was the violence the men encountered in their battles, especially on D Day on the beaches or Normandy and Omaha. It is one thing to read about bullets flying all around and hitting the solders. It becomes more real and makes more of an impression as you watch it on the movie screen, or even at home.
"Saving Private Ryan", both as a movie and as a novel, makes you proud to be an American and appreciate what the Allied troops did to make the world a better place. On a smaller scale, the combat troop assigned to find and rescue Private Ryan knew that there mission was just as important—they had been sent to capture and save a fellow soldier. And that’s just what they did.
I give this book 5 stomps. If you have seen the movie, you need to read the book. It adds a lot of detail to the story and makes you enjoy the movie even more.
The novel was based on the motion picture starring Tom Hanks and is very similar to the movie. While you watch the movie, you get to see with your eyes the fierce fighting that went on during the war as well as the battles the group fought while trying to rescue Ryan. But with the book, you not only get to see what the characters are facing, you get to know what they are thinking. The book also goes into greater detail of the background of the main characters, so you get to learn more about them—where they came from, what they felt, what they had been through. You almost knew what made them tick.
However, one thing the movie was able to capture that was stronger than the book was not was the violence the men encountered in their battles, especially on D Day on the beaches or Normandy and Omaha. It is one thing to read about bullets flying all around and hitting the solders. It becomes more real and makes more of an impression as you watch it on the movie screen, or even at home.
"Saving Private Ryan", both as a movie and as a novel, makes you proud to be an American and appreciate what the Allied troops did to make the world a better place. On a smaller scale, the combat troop assigned to find and rescue Private Ryan knew that there mission was just as important—they had been sent to capture and save a fellow soldier. And that’s just what they did.
I give this book 5 stomps. If you have seen the movie, you need to read the book. It adds a lot of detail to the story and makes you enjoy the movie even more.
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