National Flowers (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
This story follows a company of French soldiers arriving at The City of Verdun one month after the initial German attack in February 1916. This 300-day battle was one of the most terrible in history. The author lived in the Verdun area for 18 months in the...
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This story follows a company of French soldiers arriving at The City of Verdun one month after the initial German attack in February 1916. This 300-day battle was one of the most terrible in history. The author lived in the Verdun area for 18 months in the years 1955-56 while serving with the USAF in military communications in the NATO defense of Europe. During those two years I spent time studying the battlefield and talking with the veterans of that battle. This is a work of fiction based on the accounts told to me by these men. Through the story, we live the lives of these young soldiers, both French and German, as they desperately, with no time for reflection, attack or defend the totally destroyed landscape about them. We look into the lives of the privates as well as the highest levels of command; all are warriors. These soldiers have names, personalities, loved ones and dreams. You will see some in the hospitals still within the range of artillery and further back. The women, in this story, each in their own way, work to hold society together. This story is for anyone that has served in the military of their country. It is a historical novel of the Battle of Verdun in 1916.
Autoren-Porträt von Kermit R. Mercer
The author was born in Brockport, New York near the south shore of Lake Ontario and attended school in that village. He entered the USAF in March 1953 and was an Instructor in the Ground Radio Equipment School at Scott AFB, Belleville, IL. In 1955, he was reassigned, with others, to US air Bases in France. His assignment was Etain-Rouvres AB, 18 km east of the City of Verdun. At that time, the United States was rebuilding old Air Bases as a precaution against Soviet aggression in Western Europe. There were temporary assignments to Germany but his primary station was in the Verdun region. At present, the author is a Research Faculty Associate in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. He holds a U.S. Merchant Marine Masters License for 100-ton vessels for both steam and sail and the Advanced Pilot (AP) Certificate in the United States Power Squadron. The author holds Radio Amateur General Class License K2BRN and a FCC 1st Class License with radar endorsement and is the holder of a Private Pilot License. The author is a Life Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and a Master Engineer with INARTE (International Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers). He is a member of both the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Since boyhood, he has been an avid sailor and for 30 years has owned the 33-foot sloop, ARIEL, at Point Breeze, NY. He is the author of the sailing novel Cargo of Hate.
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- Autor: Kermit R. Mercer
- 2014, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1625175779
- ISBN-13: 9781625175779
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.07.2014
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