...And Save Them for the Pallbearers by James Garrett

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1959. Bantam. Fourth Printing.

From Normandy beaches to Siegfried Line, squad leader Peter Donatti fought at the front. He and his men were gaunt, hungry animals living in holes, too cold, too wet, too filthy, too scared for anything but killing and getting killed. Then Donatti caught a "million dollar wound."

It took him to Paris- a Paris gone wild with freedom and victories, where any American soldier was king. But even in the arms of the most beautiful girl he ever found, Donatti knew he had to get back to his battalion, fighting their bloody way toward the heart of Germany...