On the Road to Innsbruck and Back: A 103rd Division Infantryman's World War 2 Memoir

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir. On the Road to Innsbruck and Back is a product of the authors long obsession with serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the 103rd Infantry Division. Too often he was given a responsibility that he neither deserved nor desired. But then he was in an Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, at the service of a regimental headquarters. The chief model for On the Road is Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage, the best short novel about war that he knows. Like Crane, he wanted, above all, to demonstrate the moral cost of some months in combat upon a not-insensitive young man.