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Originally Posted by kermitology
That being said, Ambrose was notorious for his own inaccuracies and lack of acknowledging them when his errors are pointed out.
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I do vaguely remember something about that but I havent read the book so I can't really comment on the differences between the book and the movie.
As far as BoB goes, a war historian who gave tours of the D-Day beaches and airborne landing zones told me one of the more inaccurate scenes in BoB, was the scene in the second episode where a small group of E company and the 82nd ambushed the Germans with the horses under the bridge the night before D-Day. It actually didn't happen under a bridge, it was just on a elevated roadway. They added the bridge because of lighting issues when shooting a scene like that in the open at night.
Also the legend of Spiers was deliberately told in a vague fashion, because the only person with a first hand account was Malarky, and he understandably didn't want to tarnish the name of an excellent and decorated soldier like Spiers.
Speculation was that somebody must have known some of what Spiers actually did because even though he was highly decorated and very well respected among his peers, not to mention he served through WWII and Korea, yet he only retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.