BEING THERE was written in celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, December, 2014, and creates a light touch with humor offsetting horror. War book aficionados and younger generations interested in the greatest land battle of World War II will find this book enlightening and entertaining. War is not all battles, combat, and fighting. Most war books emphasize units, strategies, and participants' memories. This book follows Paul Bruce from his voyage to the European war zone where he becomes a paratrooper and, to his surprise, because of the belief the war will soon end, finds himself in the Battle of the Bulge.