Merriam Press Military Monograph 74. Fourth Edition (March 2012). The adventures chronicled in this work are those experienced by the man on the bottom. The memoirs of the captains and the generals, whose names were on every tongue, whose deeds were grandiose, whose commands and decisions impacted world history have long since been rushed to print. Now perhaps the voice of the private soldier, the anonymous GI may be heard. Not as a capstone to history, but as a supplement to the documentation of everyday moments lived by hundreds of thousands of unknown Americans. It is because relatively...
Merriam Press Military Monograph 74. Fourth Edition (March 2012). The adventures chronicled in this work are those experienced by the man on the botto...