THREE BRIDGES feature
#War
By
Alan
Wynzel
A mutilated German soldier and a Jewish G.I. race to save the woman they both love from the Nazi onslaught in the Battle of the Bulge.
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129 pages |
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Wehrmacht Sergeant Erich Brandt, a dreamer and artist, is felled by a Russian shell in 1944. His face is mutilated and he is mistakenly listed as KIA. Distraught over his horrifying appearance, he becomes slowly unhinged and obsessed with sketching all the dead he's seen in four years of war.
Katherine, an ethnic German farm girl living just inside Belgium in the village of Trois Ponts, is Brandt's young wife. Trapped on the farm by her sense of duty to her bedridden, manipulative mother, Katherine yearns to be free. She is notified of Brandt’s death just before the U.S. Army occupies the area, and the mistake is never corrected.
Sergeant Ben Glassman is a U.S. Army artillery forward observer, a German Jew who was sent to America as a boy to escape the Nazis. He feels more German than Jew and believes the Nazis to be an aberration, a brief madness that has seized Germany. His driver and radio operator, Joe, a NYC Jewish cabbie, an older man who joined the Army to escape a dull, impoverished family life, vehemently disagrees. Joe asserts the only way to fix Germany is to smash them in battle and utterly defeat them. Ben, conflicted, can barely perform his duty as he is reluctant to kill Germans.
Katherine, an ethnic German farm girl living just inside Belgium in the village of Trois Ponts, is Brandt's young wife. Trapped on the farm by her sense of duty to her bedridden, manipulative mother, Katherine yearns to be free. She is notified of Brandt’s death just before the U.S. Army occupies the area, and the mistake is never corrected.
Sergeant Ben Glassman is a U.S. Army artillery forward observer, a German Jew who was sent to America as a boy to escape the Nazis. He feels more German than Jew and believes the Nazis to be an aberration, a brief madness that has seized Germany. His driver and radio operator, Joe, a NYC Jewish cabbie, an older man who joined the Army to escape a dull, impoverished family life, vehemently disagrees. Joe asserts the only way to fix Germany is to smash them in battle and utterly defeat them. Ben, conflicted, can barely perform his duty as he is reluctant to kill Germans.
