Welcome back, David! Hope you don't abandon us again! [img]redface.gif[/img]

A soldier's story? From WWII? I could recommend you "Goodbye Darkness" by William Manchester, but it's a Pacific theatre USMC memoir…

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun