"...Having tended to the wounded as best he could, "Doc" shivered in the cold of the night and looked up at the full moon and twinkling stars sometimes visible in the partly cloudy North African sky. Soon he would follow those stars. The groans of the wounded penetrated the darkness. Low whispers and hushed voices floated through the air. Blessedly, the ear-shattering crash, concussion, and shrapnel of exploding artillery and mortar rounds and the chilling shriek of incoming 88mm tank shells finally ceased after night fell...He looked at his watch and knew that in only two hours, he and those able to walk would attempt their escape from German encirclement and the dual specters of death or capture..." Follow an American GI and combat medic in his personal and transformative journey within the throes of World War II's Mediterranean and European battle campaigns. Married to Montez on 3 June 1942, Don entered the U.S. Army the next day. Initially separated by half a continent and then an ocean, they began a three-year correspondence interrupted only by distance and war. Linked by love, commitment, courage, and resolve, both supported the other during "Doc's" life-changing odyssey through North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, France, Belgium, and Germany. Read their words as penned to the other while both endured modern history's most all-encompassing global conflict. Be with an American citizen-soldier as he describes the horror and consequence of battle. Be there as he earns the Silver and Bronze Stars. Begin to understand why they and their peers have come to be known as the "Greatest Generation."