CROSSING THE SAUER
By Charles Reis Felix
Burford Books (2002)

This a gritty and tautly written memoir of the author’s combat experiences as a frontline radioman in the Third Army during the closing months of World War II. Charley Felix and his fellow dogfaces soon learned that General Patton’s famous nickname really meant, "his guts, our blood."

Unlike many World War II memoirs, this one doesn’t portray combat as glorious—for an infantryman, life at the front was nasty, brutish, and often short. Even behind the lines, Felix and his comrades found that tyrannical noncoms, incompetent officers, and con men pretty much ran the show in liberated France and occupied areas of Germany.

Felix’s muscular writing style doesn’t waste or mince words. The incidents recounted in CROSSING THE SAUER run the gamut from heroism and tragedy to cowardice and farce, but all are told with an unflinching and unsentimental honesty that readers will find has the unmistakable ring of reality.

The success of such recent books as Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation, Turkel’s The Good War, Ambrose’s Citizen Soldiers, Andy Rooney’s My War and James Bradley’s Flags of Our Fathers—not to mention films such as "Private Ryan"—show that there is a vast potential readership for first-person accounts of World War II combat. This is a book that will reach and hook that audience.

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