One Man's Army

One Man's Army is a day-by-day account of basic training in the U.S. Army in the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the spring of 1941, Private George Wagner thought he was serving only one year in the Army as a draftee. A piece of cake. But, thanks to Pearl Harbor, George was to spend four long, harrowing years in this man's army. Along the way, George describes a peacetime Army unprepared for a looming world war. pp 260