Fearsome Battle: With the Canadian Army in World War II Europe Book

The main character of this remarkable book is combat- what it is like to exist as an infantry soldier under the horrific life and death situations encountered on the battlefield.
Robert Rogge, a 22-year-old American volunteer with the Canadian Army, waded ashore in Normandy on D-Day, 1944. He survived eleven months of intense fighting until VE Day in May 1945.
Out of his wartime experiences, Rogge graphically portrays, in a series of stunning, cinematic episodes, the animal fury of hand-to-hand combat, the terror of attaching tanks with small arms, the stench of burning flesh, the mind-numbing concussions of artillery bombardment, and the heartrending job of picking up the dead in the aftermath of battle.