There has been far too much written in memoirs, fiction and history about the travails of veterans adjusting to civilian life for us to be able to believe, in the words of the grand old song, that ...

In November 1944, amid the hostage diplomacy that Mr. Geroux chronicles, a directive signed by Heinrich Himmler ordered my dad and the other defendants to be re-tried on Jan. 25, 1945.

In 1944 after D-Day I went to Europe aboard a tank landing craft which took three days to get to Ostend from Tilbury. The weather was bad and most of those on board were sea-sick.