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'44 Foxholes in France is a factual day-to-day account of the author's personal experiences in 1944 as a WW-II infantryman in the American Third Army. Starting as a draftee private, he debarked at Utah Beach, was promoted several times in combat, finally to platoon sergeant before being wounded in the battle for Metz. Much of the story has to do with the need to face the realities of ground combat, the differing abilities of the men, and the challenges of leadership in extreme situations. Though not a "hawk" or a "professional veteran," the author found that in certain difficult situations,...

The poems in PART ONE of this volume - Poems of War Visualized - have been excerpted from '44 Foxholes in France, Book Two of the five-volume series, An Almost Perfect War. PART TWO of the present volume consists of additional poems not found in '44 Foxholes. Since we were under orders not to keep journals, diaries or other notes while in combat, all poems were written by the author retrospectively. The visualizations - created with Microsoft Word - are not intended as literal illustrations; rather they are suggestive, even abstract, representations of some of the ideas and feelings...