A very mildly interesting account of the author's experiences in WW2, with a few introductory chapters dealing with his childhood. I tried, but it's just not that gripping to be fair. All credit to Willis that he wrote this with much effort on a typewriter after a series of strokes, but his accounts of the war, from the perspective of "an ordinary man", are fairly superficial and it's all a bit flat really. One for the more dedicated historian, perhaps, but not so much for me.