

                CHAPTERS FOR LETTERS HOME: A WAR MEMOIR

                1.      Letters: the green metal box
                2.      Utah Beach: to Cherbourg
                3.      England: getting settled
                4.      England: getting ready
                5.      Night attack: a costly failure
                6.      Operation Cobra: breakout
                7.      Mortain: German counteroffensive
                8.      Paris: liberation
                9.      Interlude: importance of being Ernest
                10.     Pursuit: across northern France
                11.     Belgium: holding the line
                12.     Huertgen Forest: three weeks in hell
                13.     Luxembourg: Battle of the Bulge
                14.     Luxembourg: evaluating the Bulge
                15.     Germany: the Siegfried Line revisited
                16.     France: a respite
                17.     Germany: across the Rhine
                18.     Germany: Ellwangen and death camp
                19.     Germany: victory and occupation
                20.     Peace: but a sad homecoming         


                