The boys' crusade : the American infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 / Paul Fussell.

"A Modern Library chronicles book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index.

The boys crusaders -- First time abroad -- The fortitude secret -- The boys and the French -- An episode called Cobra -- The boys hold our near Mortain -- The lost opportunity at Falaise -- One small-unit action -- The haunted wood: Hurtgen forest -- Replacements and infantry morale -- Modes of dishonor -- treatment of damaged bodies, alive and dead -- The bulge -- The Skorzeny affair -- The Peiper affair -- The end -- The camps -- Seriousness.