Donning her father’s old helmet\, Amy is plunged into a world at war. The funny\, harrowing\, and deeply moving story of a Jewish kid from Chicago’s North Side who landed at Normandy on D-Day and fought through to the Battle of the Bulge. As Private Herzberg survives one near-death experience after another through luck\, chutzpah\, and sheer comic timing\, his daughter chases down the one story that still haunts him.