Book Description

Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front by William L. Stidger is about the human cost of war. Stidger paints an accurate depiction of the hearts of American soldiers away at war. Excerpt: "The great transport was cutting its sturdy way through three dangers: the submarine zone, a terrific storm beating from the west against its prow, and a night as dark as Erebus because of the storm, with no lights showing. I had the midnight-to-four-o'clock-in-the-morning "watch" and on this night I was on the "aft fire control." Below me on the aft gun deck, as the rain pounded, the wind howled, and the ship lurched to and fro, I could see the bulky forms of the boy gunners."