The BerlinBrigade.com July 2013 Book of the Month is "Death On Devil's Mountain" by David Von Norden
"Death on Devil's Mountain" is written by David Von Norden, a former member of the ASA, based out at US Army's former listening outpost on top of Berlin's Teufelsberg.
The Amazon.com website describes this exciting book as "The Summer of Love is past. The Cold War is heating up. Thousands of
young men are being drafted for the conflict in Southeast Asia and
hundreds more enlist in the hope of some choice of assignment. The best
of these volunteers are channeled into the Army Security Agency and the
brightest of this group gets sent to the National Security Agency's most
important listening post,The Hill, in West Berlin. Teufelsberg, the
Germans call it. The Devil's Mountain, a monument constructed from the
rubble and ruins of the crushed German capital. But there is something
terribly wrong in the 54th ASA Special Operations Command. People are
dying. Death on Devil's Mountain depicts the twisted macramé of
intelligence work, its effect on the 'civilians in uniform', and the
mounting rancor of enlisted men against the cadre of sergeants and
'lifers'. This unit of hand picked misfits is a natural choice for a mad
CIA-operated experiment code named MK-ISLAND. An experiment gone awry."
You can order your copy of "Death On Devil's Mountain" from Amazon.com
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25 November 2012
Nov/Dec 2012 Book of the Month: C Trick by Donald M. Cooper
The November - December 2012 Book of the Month is by former member of the Berlin Brigade Donald M. Cooper: C TRICK.
His entry into the literary world is the book "C Trick" which has be considered as THE Cold War "memoir for the common man."
C TRICK reads sort of as a glimpse into life during a wartime military (Vietnam) and "[b]efore the all-volunteer Army, there was the draft. This meant that most young American men had to decide how they were going to meet their military obligation. As the Cold War dragged on and the Vietnam War heated up, how a person met this obligation assumed critical importance. The choices were stark. If you were in college, you were safe. If not, you could wait to be drafted with the understanding that you could be sent to Vietnam as a combat soldier, or you could volunteer for an assignment that offered the chance of avoiding infantry combat in a rice paddy. Volunteering, however, also had a price. You would serve for a longer time, often in a foreign country far away from friends and family. "C Trick" tells the story of some of those who volunteered. The book is a tale that describes how one group of young citizen-soldiers met their military obligation during the last half of the Sixties. The book describes what it was like to be a soldier in a special Army unit stationed in what may have been the most important Cold War hot spot. Using prose from the era, the book captures all the humor and frustration experienced by young men coping with the rigors of military life. The reader will experience the frustration of these men when they were expected to perform difficult technical work in an important national security facility while also dealing with military absurdities. This book captures all the details of how these soldiers worked, played and tried to avoid military life while serving in the Army. It is a very refreshing account of how Cold War soldiers spent their time while their lives were on hold." (Amazon.com Book Description).
You can order your copy of C TRICK by Donald M. Cooper:
His entry into the literary world is the book "C Trick" which has be considered as THE Cold War "memoir for the common man."
C TRICK reads sort of as a glimpse into life during a wartime military (Vietnam) and "[b]efore the all-volunteer Army, there was the draft. This meant that most young American men had to decide how they were going to meet their military obligation. As the Cold War dragged on and the Vietnam War heated up, how a person met this obligation assumed critical importance. The choices were stark. If you were in college, you were safe. If not, you could wait to be drafted with the understanding that you could be sent to Vietnam as a combat soldier, or you could volunteer for an assignment that offered the chance of avoiding infantry combat in a rice paddy. Volunteering, however, also had a price. You would serve for a longer time, often in a foreign country far away from friends and family. "C Trick" tells the story of some of those who volunteered. The book is a tale that describes how one group of young citizen-soldiers met their military obligation during the last half of the Sixties. The book describes what it was like to be a soldier in a special Army unit stationed in what may have been the most important Cold War hot spot. Using prose from the era, the book captures all the humor and frustration experienced by young men coping with the rigors of military life. The reader will experience the frustration of these men when they were expected to perform difficult technical work in an important national security facility while also dealing with military absurdities. This book captures all the details of how these soldiers worked, played and tried to avoid military life while serving in the Army. It is a very refreshing account of how Cold War soldiers spent their time while their lives were on hold." (Amazon.com Book Description).
You can order your copy of C TRICK by Donald M. Cooper:
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