Two men are on a troopship headed for England. One is a soldier, and the other a sailor. The soldier is thinking of suicide because he is hated by members of his company. The other is a sailor who finds out the soldier's circumstance and talks him into changing places with him rather than take his own life. They get their sergeant and chief to agree to the swap and exchange identities. They are both better suited for their new roles. The soldier's new name is Alvin Adams, and he is shipped to North Africa for America's first battle of World War II. He meets a sergeant, and they become lifelong…mehr
Two men are on a troopship headed for England. One is a soldier, and the other a sailor. The soldier is thinking of suicide because he is hated by members of his company. The other is a sailor who finds out the soldier's circumstance and talks him into changing places with him rather than take his own life. They get their sergeant and chief to agree to the swap and exchange identities. They are both better suited for their new roles. The soldier's new name is Alvin Adams, and he is shipped to North Africa for America's first battle of World War II. He meets a sergeant, and they become lifelong friends. They go through every major engagement in the war. After the war, they become part of the newly formed CIA and are engaged in the clandestineness of the Cold War. The sailor, now Casey Crane, has just as thrilling of a life as he survives his ships being sunk twice. Once he is picked up by his own ship, but another time by a German U-boat. He escapes and is returned home. Casey and his chief become close friends as they go through harrowing events together. Casey marries his chief's daughter, which adds spice with a love story. Both have eventful careers and keep up with one another.
WILLIAM POST, is the author of 29 novels with a variety of genres. He is a professional civil engineer, licensed with the state of California. He took an early retirement and moved to Northern California where he started his writing career. Post was reared in West Texas, educated at Texas A. & M. and served in the U.S. Navy. After his service, he became a surveyor with the Southern Pacific Railroad, which took him to the wilds of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. He picked up the lore of those areas, as can be seen in the novels of those areas. He is a student of the Word Wars and the Civil War and generated several novels of those eras. His wife was born in Germany and they have visited there several times. He developed an interest of that area and several of his novels use Germany as the central setting. Post is an Evangelic Christian and this thread is woven through the fabric of is novels. He now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife, Brigitte, and their extended family.
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