This specially produced bookplate, created on sepia recycled card, features an original pencil drawing of Darrell ‘Shifty’ Powers by Steve Teasdale. A scarce and genuine Shifty Powers signature has been professionally mounted underneath the drawing. The bookplate will fit most books on The Band Of Brothers, especially Powers’ own account ‘Shifty’s War’ ( if you are lucky enough to find a copy). Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills.  On 13 January 1945, when Easy Company was attacking Foy, several of the men were pinned down by a sniper that nobody could locate. Suddenly, Powers yelled, "I see him!" and fired his rifle, killing the sniper. Later, when Carwood Lipton and Wynn found the sniper's corpse, they were shocked to see the bullet hole centered in the middle of his forehead. Wynn commented, "You know, it just doesn't pay to be shootin' at Shifty when he's got a rifle."