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Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers is the title of Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton's memoirs. Buck was made famous by the popular HBO World War II miniseries, Band of Brothers , by the book of the same title by historian Stephen Ambrose, and his involvement in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.

Published by Berkley Publishing, it was released on May 6, 2008, [1] and features an epilogue by Neal McDonough. [2]

Notes

  1. "Buck Compton's book: About the book". Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  2. "Buck Compton's book: Read Neal McDonough's Epilogue". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2007-12-31.

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