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...Letters of Private Wheeler. An absorbing record of life in the British army during the Napoleonic wars, as told in the newly discovered letters of a sharp-eyed Somerset infantryman (TIME, March...
Salts for Sore Eyes. Americans will enjoy The Letters of Private Wheeler too, whether or not they happen to know very much about Wellington's battles. Wheeler had the temperament of a first-class infantryman anywhere & any time, and a natural gift for telling a clear story...
...these men feel about the war? A grimy, bearded infantryman spoke for thousands when he said to me: "I guess it all depends on how you look at it. The days it's my turn to go out on patrol and some jerk over there cuts down at me with a burp gun or whatever-why, then it's a hell of a big war for me that day. And the days I get to just lay around the bunker-with maybe only ten or 15 rounds incoming all day, and the Chinaman stays over...
...infantryman's own grimly terse definition, morale in combat is whether you fight good or not, when the man (i.e., the C.O.) tells you to. All along the front the U.N.'s Joes were pushing ahead of a hypothetical line, afoot and in tanks and aircraft, to fight the enemy because the man had told them to. The chaplain of one U.S. outfit in the west central sector snorted at a question about morale...
West Point did a bang-up job on Melville Goodwin. It took a small-town druggist's son from Hallowell, N.H. and turned out an officer who seemed to be all guts and resourcefulness. Mel Goodwin proved that in two world wars, first as an infantryman and then as a tanker. Now he was fiftyish, a major general and still going up. But neither West Point nor combat had taught him how to cope with a civilian hazard like Dottie Peale. At 40, Dottie was a rich publisher's widow, beautifully preserved. She was out to land...