Day Without End

<p><strong>Day Without End</strong> originally published in 1949 and reissued in 1951 as <strong>Combat</strong> is a fictional account of a U.S. Army platoon fighting in the difficult hedgerow country of Normandy France several weeks after the June 1944 D-Day landings. The book follows the battle-weary infantrymen led by Lieutenant Paul Roth during the course of a single gut-wrenching day near St. Lo. Their relief promised for many days has not come and except for a handful of green replacements all of the men are approaching an acute state of battle fatigue. From a pre-dawn patrol to a terrible twilight Roth's platoon is followed through every protracted moment of a day that seems to have been diverted from the normal course of time and to run on forever.</p>