It can be argued that there is no adequate training to be a combat infantryman. John Light relates the story of his trek from a naive eighteen year old through the rigors of training to the campaigns of Belgium, Holland, and Germany and to his eventual wounding near Marburg, Germany shortly before the war's end.
"I omitted most of the gore," Light said. "Some of the sights, sounds, and smells have to be lived through to be understood. The emotions of weeks on the frontline are too numbing to be described completely to someone who has not been there. My attempt here is to relate a general description of the life we led and some of the events that made this time so memorable to those who lived through it.