World War II Chronicles: A View of War From the Bottom. Wars are usually told of in terms of heros and generals, of great feats of derring-do, of battles large and small, of miles gained or lost. of snow or storm, or tropic heat, and of men, dead or dying. There is little of that in this book. We often speak of tank movements, of divisions deployed, of strategies, of air strikes and bombs, but seldom do we countenance the sole ordinary soldier. Rarely is the individual soldier, this single replaceable cog in the great war machine brought to account. This book takes the unusual perspective of...

I am the most fortunate of beings I went to school before progressive education tightened its grip on American education. I missed being diagnosed as learning disabled (LD), with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and perhaps with a bit of Asperger's Syndrome thrown in. Or, perhaps, or one or another of those pseudo-medical diseases the schools dream up to account for those mis-fortunates who do not fit into their narrow concept of a curriculum. I am doubly fortunate to also have Perseverance, a malady that has not yet been credited with a diagnosis. Perseverance the ability to stick to some...