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Plan B: Cold War Adventures of a West German Soldier
Paperback
ISBN13: 9783964031396
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 29 2021
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When 18-year-old Hartmut Schober gets drafted into the Bundeswehr, the German Armed Forces, the year is 1989, and it's the final peak of the Cold War. Military training is never easy, but as George Washington said, to be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace - and the Bundeswehr is determined to preserve peace. By all means.
As Schober soon finds out, those means include harsh drills with cruel drill instructors, huge and dangerous NATO exercises, as well as funny encounters with the US soldiers, and even Darth Vader's storm troopers invading a suburb of Cologne.
Dramatic times need dramatic measures, after all, though for Schober it quickly turns into just the normal insanity of the German soldiers' daily business.
Just the everyday life of the ordinary soldier.
Written by soldiers for soldiers and all interested parties - same as all the EK-2 Publishing's German Military Fiction books - Plan B will take you on a journey of a proud young West German soldier in the final days of the Cold War, show you what it looked like in those days, and perhaps bring back memories of your own turn abroad.
More than 25 drawings by German veteran Markus Preger support the story. Besides, the book features 3 short stories by Hartmut Schober as a bonus.
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