Title: An exercise in self-pity
Product review: This books suffers a bit too much from the author's chaotic musings about anything that just happens to pop into his mind. Based on notes he made in the field during World War II, the author spends too much time revisiting his every thought instead of describing what was going on. The book does provide a fairly good perspective of a well-educated infantryman in the war if you are willing to skim over page after page of annoying "holier-than-thou" philosophizing. But what is worse about this book is the pervasive atmosphere of self-pity that the author exudes. I sometimes get the impression the author feels that destroying Nazi Germany wasn't worth the effort because it was too much of an inconvenience on his personal life.
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