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Mannheim: A Humorous and Unexpected Journey of Self-discovery

Mannheim: A Humorous and Unexpected Journey of Self-discovery

Levine, Charles R.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralMetaphysical GeneralArmed Forces

ISBN10: 1545646562
ISBN13: 9781545646564
Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc
Published: Nov 5 2018
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

An insecure young man drafted into the United States Army in 1968 at the height of the American war in Vietnam finds himself adrift in Mannheim, Germany, an assigned detour from combat made possible by his talent at baseball, one that years earlier had found him opposing--and besting--the eventual Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver. Although his deployment in Germany, rather than in the bloody rice patties of Vietnam is nothing less than fortuitous in that regard, Private Charles Levine nevertheless finds himself at the mercy of a military bureaucracy he can neither fathom nor follow.
Ever fearful that he might be sent off to a war he rejects on philosophical and humane grounds, Levine reaches his nadir when he meets a Gatsby-like fellow G.I. equally dismayed by his circumstances. Levine discovers a side of himself he had never known, long after the two young men crossed paths in a place neither wanted to be.

Charles Levine's Mannheim is a fascinating lifelong voyage of self-discovery. Levine's prose is clean, clear and approachable and his book is refreshingly candid and vulnerable. I couldn't put it down.
David Elliot Cohen, multi-New York Times
best-selling author of One Year Off and The Wrong Dog

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