Factor, Gerald

Award winning author Gerald Factor grew up in a tough suburb of Boston during the Great Depression. As a child he decided he wanted to be an engineer and later during WWII he joined the army to participate in the Army Specialized Training Program that was going to send him to engineering college.When that program was cancelled in January 1944 after basic training, he became a rifleman in the infantry and was in combat in Europe. His first book "Private Wars"chronicles his three conflicts: with his virulently anti-Semitic squad leader, the Germans, and within himself. When he returned from the