"Combat Safari" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1997 (unbound).

Nuetzman served in the 4th Armored Division in Patton's Third Army during World War II. In the essay's introduction, Nuetzman wrote that he was "attempting to present not a blow-by-blow description of actual combat (although it may have that appearance at times), but a vivid conception to the reader of the emotions that are felt by the average soldier who is waiting to go to the front, of his feelings at night while living in a foxhole, of his intense desire to go home and to live at peace with his loved ones." The Fourth Armored Division saw extensive action in the Battle of the Bulge, and helped to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne at Bastogne. The division then turned east, advancing through Germany to Czechoslovakia.