This book is the story of the life of a private in the Army during World War II. It deals mainly with the daily events of the Author and his fellow soldiers in a combat engineering battalion in Europe. How life was on the front line. How we lived as a close knit family, eating, sleeping and working together as a unit under the strenuous conditions of combat. The Author included letters to an aunt that indicate his feelings and thoughts at that time and his hopes for future after the war.