my wife, Rebecca and I were at your talk at the Decatur library and reallyenjoyed it. As an infantryman, Europe ww11 in Europe B.A.R.in that winter of 45 I know just how Sharpe et al felt after spending three months in ice/snow covered foxholes just as thinly clad. May I suggest my favorite memoir of the Napolenic wars T ADVENTURES OF GEN. MARBOT by Thompson -great ink sketches-pub. 1932 or 3 as an objective narrative as I have ever read and I,ve read all my rather long life. John F Campbell