Here is the infantryman's story -- the coal miner from Cape Breton, the fisherman from the west coast, the hayshaker from the prairies -- as told through the eyes of Sergeant Fred Cederberg of the Cape Breton Highlanders and Lanark and Renfrew Scottish. This is the story of the soldiers' training, their army home away from home in England, that landing in Naples, and the epic struggle against the crack troops of the German 10th Army in mountainous central Italy.