{"product_id":"9781453592335","title":"Diary of a Replacement Soldier: One Man's Remembrance of the Last Days of World War Two in Europe","description":"âIn high school I wanted to be a doctor.\u003cbr\u003eThe editors of our year book suggested that I might end up as a cartoonist. When war came, I yearned to join the national effort and at the age of seventeen I\u003cbr\u003eenlisted in the Army Specialized Training\u003cbr\u003eReserve Program. From the campus of the University of Delaware, I was sent to\u003cbr\u003eArkansas for Infantry Basic Training when I was eighteen,\u003cbr\u003eand then to Europe to join the 103rd Infantry Division as a rifleman replacement where I had a second row seat to some of the events of the last days of the war in Europe. With the generosity of the GI Bill, my country provided me with the means to an education and a career and I was more than rewarded for my efforts to serve my country. In this memoir,\u003cbr\u003eI yielded to the desire to share with others some of the day to day episodes, as I saw them, of a war that was falling apart for the ones who started it.â","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134919459056,"sku":"9781453592335","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453592335_p0.jpg?v=1763851300","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453592335","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}