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    Big Gene Little Gene
    Big Gene Little Gene
    Big Gene Little Gene
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    Big Gene Little Gene

    By Bob Fields

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    INTRODUCTION
    On June 5th, 1944, towards the end of World War II, amidst the roaring sounds of aircraft, firearms, combat vehicles and explosions. a British Hawker Typhoon dropped an air to ground rocket on the Electronic Warfare Van occupied by Eugen Schroeder. He, along with other members of his team, was captured by American forces. They were all transferred to an Army POW Camp in Houlton, Maine.
    Gene Ross, a ten-year-old US citizen, living on a small farm in Monticello, grew up in times when kids were taught to hate Germans. Although little Gene is quite frightened at the prospect of meeting the prisoners from Germany, he is amazed to learn how there is little or no difference at all between his people and the people from beyond. the enemy lines. The friendship he shares with one of these prisoners of war (Big Gene) becomes very close, very emotional. When the war ends and Big Gene returns to Germany, Little Gene understands the pang of separation for the first time.
    This book “Big Gene Little Gene” is an emotional dip into an era where murders and butcheries in the name of wars and nationalism were considered to be common. Hitler, whose promises of a great future in a powerful Germany, found mindboggling success by pushing young brains to the war front. Read this story of the “Big Gene and the Little Gene” to know how a war changes life and how people learn to accept truths that they wouldn’t have seen in their normal lives. If you find it hard to imagine how it feels to come back home, after being trapped in a war for years and find nothing but the dust and soil waiting for you to touch them, this is the book for you. Go through the tumultuous life of the Big Gene and find out whether he wins the war of life in the end or loses everything to his destiny.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Fields
    Release dateJul 25, 2016
    ISBN9781370841240
    Big Gene Little Gene
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    Bob Fields

    Bob Fields possesses an exceptional talent for translating his broadly based life experiences to the written page. A veteran of two wars (three if you count Wall Street), his hardscrabble early life taught him real life lessons; the application of which propelled his success in a military career and numerous business ventures.After his retirement from business in 1999, he began a career as a Free Lance Writer. His work has been published in regional magazines and company oriented newsletters related to the environment. He has published two print books describing life as a boy in the 1940s, and a highly acclaimed novel; “Rendezvous with Destiny” a well-paced story about discrimination, love, murder, revenge, redemption, and the ultimate understanding between people with disparate backgrounds in small town America.Bob is currently working on several short stories soon to be published as an anthology about Maine as it once was.Like me on Face Book

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