I Walk Through the Valley: A World War II Infantryman’s Memoir of War, Imprisonment and Love

Greetings…you will report to the local board, said the letter to the 31-year-old father and husband, drafting him into the Army in 1944.

There followed boot camp and bitter combat in Europe. Wounded, the author spent three days suffering on a frozen battlefield before being captured, hospitalised and then incarcerated by the Germans. Liberation, healing and reunion with loved ones took a long, long time.