Between Trains

9781591298175

1591298172

Between Trains is an unusual name for a war book. It begins on a troop train carrying our soldier to Camp Barkley, Texas, to the 90th Infantry Division. It concludes almost four years later taking him to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, for discharge. He quickly finds himself moving into France, Holland, Belgium, and across Germany where he found the mud, cold, shelling, and burp guns of the front. He is constantly attacking or preparing for attacks that carry him to the Elbe River. From the beginning, our soldier carries with him the need for females, the sometimes use of alcohol, and the agony of constant goodbyes. He also is aware of his desire to carry out his share of whatever action develops around him, war or otherwise. But he was not prepared for the contacts he makes with enemy civilians, young or old, always a by-product of war. If the readers find something of themselves in this first person recollection of the big war, the author feels he has accomplished his purpose.