A Foot Soldier for Patton: The Story of a "Red Diamond" Infantryman with the US Third Army

A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . . A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes the listener from the beaches of Normandy through the giddy drive across France, to the brutal battles on the Westwall, in the Ardennes, and finally to the conquest of Germany itself.



Patton's army is best known for dashing armored attacks, its commander combining the firepower of tanks with their historic lineage a...