A young Southern Lieutenant of Artillery relates his engrossing experiences directing artillery through the mountainous villages of Italy, describing the fall of Monte Cassino, being in the vanguard of the freeing of Roma, residing in a villa near Florence and, after pushing the Germans northward, landing in the south of France. From there his units supported infantry as they pushed the Germans past the Siegfried Line and on to VE Day. Along the way, he earned the Silver Star for gallantry in France. In places sad and poignant, in others humorous, laced with romantic episodes on R and R in liberated Paris and during the Occupation, "Ace" is a true account of one of our finest generation"s war experiences.