. I've only read through the end of chapter 2, but it's already quite riveting.Here's just a tiny excerpt that I thought would be suitable for my usual kind of topic.
In mid January, the army picked up its pace and rapidly transitioned from a peacetime establishment to a wartime military force. Six-day weeks gave way to seven-day workweeks. This gave me the opportunity to observe some of the officers more carefully. Most of the officers at Camp Croft had come directly from the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), including my platoon leader. Neither he nor the other platoon leaders knew their jobs. My frustration reached new heights one rainy day when a lieutenant came to teach our platoon about the new M-1 Garand 30-06 semiautomatic rifle, which the army was just fielding. In giving the nomenclature and the operation of the new weapon, he picked up a 1903 Springfield rifle and spent forty-five minutes talking about the M-1. The lieutenant didn't even realize he wasn't holding an M-1. I thought this was impossible as no leader could be this dense.I might do an actual review of this book when I finish it, since Eponym has some nifty pre-formatted review stuff built in here.
The book has lots of stories that were never told before. For now, I'll just say that this looks like a book well worth reading.
