Here is an excerpt from the book club news:
THIS is a new kind of war book -at least for this war-and a revelation as well as a relief for those of us who are crammed with soldiers' narratives which, no matter how exciting and brilliant, are written with little reference to the massive structure of war, in which they are episodes only,
Captain, then Lieutenant Ingersoll, once the brilliant (and controversial) editor of PM, has had the experience so common among young Americans in this war. Once in the Army, its life and organization have gripped his whole being and utterly absorbed his interests. And in this book he tells his own story, but only in order to explain and describe from firsthand experience how a modern army operates, how a battle is made and won, and what it is actually like.
The battle, if my figuring is right, was begun and ended within two days. It was the brilliantly prepared and executed flanking movement by which Rangers, assisted by Engineers, climbed the mountains above El Guettar in Tunisia at night, and came down behind the impregnable funnel gorge on the road to Sfax, clearing the way to the Mediterranean in two directions.
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