Title: Reflections of a combat infantryman
Product review: This book was written years after the events described occurred.Kotlowitz was obviously haunted by his brief but terrifying initiation as a combat soldier, only three members of his platoon survived a combat patrol in France.It took Kotlowitz fifty years to contact one of the other survivors, a man who was a close buddy.I think this book compares well with "Flights of Passage" by Samuel L. Hynes who was a Marine Aviator in the Pacific. Both gentlemen wrote their memoirs decades after the war,and even though both admitted that some memories were foggy ,they tell it the way they remembered it,warts and all.These books show if nothing else, the trauma of war is with its survivors for their entire lives. I highly recommend "Before Their Time" by Robert Kotlowitz and "Flights of Passage" by Samuel L. Hynes.
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