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G Company's War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945. By Bruce E. Egger and Lee MacMillan Otts. Ed. by Paul Roley. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. x + 293 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-0566-1.)
G Company's War is a book you want to have succeed. Using the World War II diaries of Bruce E. Egger and Lee MacMillan Otts, it follows G Company of the 328th Infantry from the breakthrough in France in mid-November of 1944, through the Battle of the Bulge and the Moselle and Saar Basin campaigns, to the race across Germany and V-E Day on May 15, 1945. During these six months G Company participated in several major battles and (with a normal strength of 190 men) suffered 433 casualties, including 57 killed in action, 183...