Publisher's Synopsis
Don't let the title fool you, because you don't have to believe in ghosts -- "of the Rhine," or otherwise -- to be spirited away into the all-too-real, flesh-and-blood, wartime experiences of this "tell it like it really was" author. Share the innermost feelings of an 18-year-old, "kidnapped" form his upper middle class family, taught to hate through the military's barbaric "Disorganization, Degradation and Dehumanization Program: (his terminology), and sent out by "them" as just another brainwashed sheep to kill and die for "his country." We're not dealing here with simply one more of the myriad "Flat-On-My-Back-At-10,000-Feet," or "Hell-in-a-Foxhole," repetitiously monotonous "war stories" memoirs. This is an adventure involving repeated unusual circumstances in a blitzkrieg of ever-changing scenery and situations, a "4 battle stars in 3 months" action drama bordering on fiction, yet each and every detail believably accurate. You don't have to be military-oriented, or any type of "armchair commando" to find a (male chauvinist pig) place for yourself among these pages. You'll discover circumstances which would've happened to you, personally, had you been there then, and which could still happen to you, even now, with the mere differences of perhaps time, place, and circumstance. As you'll see, none of "us" are invulnerable to the bloodthirsty greed of "them," past, present, or future. Who knows? This down-to-basics recounting of the sometimes-typical, sometimes-unbelievable situations which actually took place, may very well turn out to be a real-life "All Quiet on the Western Front" of the Second World War? . . . As the author dares, "Bite the bullet, take a chance, and find out for yourself!"
