And Save Them For Pallbearers

And Save Them for Pallbearers , first published in 1958, is a gritty World War II novel centered on a platoon of U.S. GI's, fighting from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge. Main character Sergeant Peter Donatti is wounded on an attack on the Siegfried Line, and while in an army hospital in Paris, meets nurse Lt. Abigail Winslow, and a romance develops. Although he is scheduled to return to the U.S., Donatti instead returns to his outfit. His return to the front has tragic consequences as the fier