He wrote about that experience in his book If You Survive, which is now required reading at the U.S. About the Author: George Wilson (1921-2005) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. If You Survive One of the great first-person accounts of the making of a combat veteran, in the last, most violent months of World War II. In the end, he felt not like a conqueror or a victor, but an exhausted survivor, left with nothing but his life - and his emotions. The last words his father told him before he was sent off to the death camp were, ‘Maybe you. Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished. Goldfarb’s view of life and work is clearly informed by his father’s experience in the Holocaust.
From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building. "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy - and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled.
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