Company Commander
Twenty-one years old and handed a rifle company in the Ardennes, written while it was all still raw
MacDonald was twenty-one when he took over a rifle company in the Ardennes, and he wrote this within two years of the fighting, while the detail was still exact. It is unusually honest about fear and about not knowing what to do, which is why it has been assigned to junior officers for seventy years. The immediacy is the point: no hindsight has been applied.
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