Set just after the Normandy invasion, this is the story of Heck, an American GI who has recently arrived from Ohio. It draws the reader into the unimaginable fe... » 

Set just after the Normandy invasion, this is the story of Heck, an American GI who has recently arrived from Ohio. It draws the reader into the unimaginable fear, violence and chaos of the war zone. Like Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, and Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong, it shows how ordinary lives are transformed by extraordinary events. «