This gripping and very unusual book of letters from over 60 years ago is as up-to-date as tomorrow's diet. Written by an all-American 23-year-old, they combine on-the-spot documentation and conversations with personal insights, politics, flirtations, gossip, and hopes for a better future. A patriotic apple-pie American in uniform (but a civilian), the writer loved to quote Goethe's Faust to imprisoned Nazi war criminals in the bombed-out zones of occupation. In-fighting and ego-trips among the winners were, as always, in place - just as in today's War of the Worlds.
