The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman. What happens when an Ivy League preppy is suddenly dumped from a comfortable college environment into combat as
Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, Wor
“A comprehensive and vivid account of the heroic defense of Bastogne... McManus has taken a great old story and made it new again.”—Rick Atkinson, Pulitze