The battle for Ortona was combat at its closest, most intimate, and most horrifying. Canadian infantry pitted against the toughest German paratroopers, pounding forward street by street, house by house, grenade by grenade. The War Inside is a personal retelling of one of the fiercest battles of the Italian Campaign from the searing points of view of Canadian infantrymen, a tanker, a stretcher bearer, and a German paratrooper.