Description:

The author kept a daily diary of his time in the Army.

It is through this Journal and family correspondence that details of the life of a G.I.-- the training, the routine duties, the drama of war, the release provided by passes and leaves.

The challenges of living with the threat of death are revealed. Through personal narrative, key moments of the War in Europe are presented: the Normandy Beachhead, the liberation of Paris and Brussels, Buzz Bombed in Liege and The horrors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

A Soldier’s Diary is the story of an ordinary soldier and his daily routine.