"This is the TRUE account of a bunch of ""kids,"" almost all of them straight out of high ""school,"" caught up in the wave of English patriotism that responded to Adolf Hitler. It's as factual as the ongoing war diaries of the ""author,"" which thread the work through its six long years as the boys grew into men in the face of death. Three times ""wounded,"" the author absconded from his hospital bed in bandages and returned to his regiment to fight again."