Description

This new print accompanies the outstanding book, Easy Co. 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment – In Photographs, to create a unique Special Collectors edition. Chris Collingwood has painted yet another outstanding masterpiece that cements his reputation as one of the world’s foremost military portrait painters. His portrayal of Major Dick Winters and the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, as they take up a holding position in the Normandy town of Carentan on 14 June 1944, eight days after their dramatic parachute drop into Normandy on D-Day, brings these heroic warriors to life with stunning realism.

THE BOOK - EASY CO. 506th PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT – IN PHOTOGRAPHS

This extraordinary 232 page book, compiled by Easy Company’s offical historian Jake Powers, features over 400 rare photographs and items of memorabilia, including maps and diary extracts. The majority of these have come directly from the personal collection of Major Dick Winters, who worked closely in the publication of this outstanding title.

Together with a 20,000 word text written by the surviving veterans of Easy Company, there are contributions from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks who co-produced the celebrated mini-series Band of Brothers; and from actors Damian Lewis and James Madio – who played the parts of Dick Winters and Frank Perconte in the series.

Every copy of the book is printed on heavy weight art paper with photographs reproduced in full colour, and with gold-blocked titles emblazoned on the spine, and with every page gilt-edged.

Signatures

THE PRINTS
Each print in every edition is signed by FOUR surviving veterans of EASY COMPANY.

Corporal HERB ‘Jr.’ SUERTH
Colonel ED SHAMES
Sergeant PAUL ROGERS
Sergeant AMOS ‘BUCK’ TAYLOR

Each print is also signed by the Artist, individually hand-numbered and issued with a matching numbered limited edition book.

THE COLLECTORS EDITION With a total of NINE signatures

Issued with the four signature print MOVING ON is a matching-numbered copy of the book EASY COMPANY, 506th P.I.R. – IN PHOTOGRAPHS. Hand-bound by craftsmen using part leather and M1942 jumpsuit material, the book features a sewn replica ‘Screaming Eagle’ patch on the cover, is enclosed within a black cloth-covered slipcase, silk screened with golden parachutists, and contains an exclusive book plate signed by five more Easy Company Veterans.

Staff Sergeant WILLIAM “WILD BILL” GUARNERE
Lieutenant JOHN FOLEY
First Sergeant FRANK SOBOLESKI
Private HANK ZIMMERMAN
Private ED JOINT

THE DE-LUXE PORTFOLIO PROOFS With a total of TWELVE signatures.

Issued with a matching-numbered four-signature copy of MOVING ON, each de-luxe book is hand bound in full leather, with the badge of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment gold-blocked on the cover. These Portfolio Edition books are contained within a tough buckram box, screen-printed with golden parachutists. Inside the box, accompanying the book is a replica US War Department envelope containing facsimiles of Major Dick Winters’ ID card, his jump certificate, a letter from Bill Lauer sent January 1945, General McAuliffe’s Christmas letter during the Battle of the Bulge, and the 506ths PIR 1942 Christmas menu, AND an exclusive book plate signed by a further SEVEN veterans of EASY COMPANY.


Sergeant ROD BAIN
Corporal DON BOND
Lieutenant BUCK COMPTON
Sergeant ED TIPPER
Private WILLIAM ‘BILL’ WINGETT
Sergeant DONALD MALARKEY
Corporal Technician BILL MAYNARD

PLUS all de-luxe copies are also signed by DAMIAN LEWIS, who portrayed Major Dick Winters in the award-winning TV series BAND OF BROTHERS.

THE GICLÉE CANVAS PROOFS
To replicate the artist’s original painting so faithfully, each print is individually worked by a specialist master printer laying down solid colour on canvas, so that only the experienced eye can distinguish them from the original. These outstanding Giclee proofs are issued with a leather bound de-luxe copy of the book with an EIGHT signatures book plate (the signatures in the book may vary)