War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another episode of Key Battles of American History.

In this episode, Sean and I will conclude our series of in-depth discussions of the

epic award-winning 2001 HBO miniseries Band

of Brothers.

It's kind of sad.

We're going to be leaving Band of Brothers after this.

We're going to discuss the last episode, episode 10, which is called Points for you.

All right.

Sean, before we launch into the plot and our discussion, our analysis, do you have anything

you want to

stay up front? I always like to give you the first opportunity to speak. No. So the director

of the episode is Michael Solomon. Michael Solomon is a well-known and prodigious television director,

but he also was a cinematographer who actually, if you've seen

the movies, Stephen Spielberg's movie, always. And if you've seen the movie backdrop, the movie

far and away, arachnophobia, and a movie, one of my favorite movies, The Abyss,

he was a cinematographer, he was the cameraman for those films. He's a, I believe he's either

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