This is an autobiographic look at the war experience of a lieutenant of paratroopers serving in World War II in the famed 82d Airborne Division.  In this book, author James Megellas (a/k/a "Maggie") tells us the story of intense and almost continuous combat beginning in North Africa, continuing in Italy, and finally D-Day and the invasion of Western Europe.  The author explains that his "MOS" (Military Occupational Specialty) was simply to "Kill Germans" and that this was the real, if unofficial, job description of himself and his men.  The author makes no bones about the merciless nature of the war.  Prisoners were sometimes shot by both sides, and to say that there were hard feelings is an understatement.  This was a rough war against a competent enemy who inflicted terrible casualties on allied soldiers, who in turn gave even better than they got.