SPANDAU GUARD: Update #5

A quick update: The final PROOF is being printed as I am typing this. I hope you will like the story I have written you.

Here is a brief something special for you. A brief excerpt from Spandau Guard, chapter 16:
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“MAIL CALL!” Sergeant Joridan, the company supply sergeant, yelled.

Two of the sweetest words ever uttered in the history of the modern military. However, during the holidays those words are doubly sweet. During the holidays, there is a greater chance that you will receive a package from home with all sorts of goodies inside the boxes. At first, a few packages came in but nothing like today. It was as if Santa had to make two trips. There were all sorts of boxes in all sorts of sizes. However, there was one box that I was looking and waiting for. I had been looking for that box since the holiday season started. It was a box shipped with love from my other Nana.

My grandmother would usually send me a box full of pan de polvo cookies. No matter where in the world I was, there they would be. They would arrive a little before Christmas and I would make those sweet little treasures last until at least St. Valentine’s Day. I could taste the homemade love in those crumbly, cinnamon-anise infused delicacies that reminded me of my childhood in south Texas. Oh, she knew how to take care of her oldest grandchild.

“Ledesma!”

There it was! I started making my way past the orgy of paper, boxes, and gluttony and in a few minutes, I would be enjoying those wonderful, delicious, wholesome, wait a second. What? A letter. All that Sgt. Joridan hands me is a letter. I look at the front and it is a letter from my bank back home. I open it. A folding calendar. Talk about being let down. I want cookies. I do not need a calendar to remind me that I do not have cookies. I hang my head low, turn to make a beeline towards my bunk.

“Ledesma! Where you going? You also have a package.”

My predication came true. A few minutes later, I was tearing into the first dozen of those bite size givers of life. The sweetness and spice all rolled into a cookie with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top. It was like a holiday miracle I could see grown men reduced to children again. Biting into sugar cookies with ornamental frosting, snicker doodles, chocolate chip cookies, thumbprint cookies, and of course gingerbread cookies. Those were just the ones that I could see.

Unfortunately, it was almost time to get ready to go on duty...

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Thank you for your time.
David Guerra

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AIR BRIDGE BERLIN & DOUGHBOY CITY is the historical fiction work for author, David G. Guerra. He has previously published "The Walking Leader" and is working on the next book in his Walking Leader trilogy of books, "Great To Follow" with "We, The Team" as the last book.

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The next book in the Occupied Berlin series is SPANDAU GUARD coming October 2014.

UNTITLED BOOK PROJECT FOR A FALL 2014 RELEASE GETS A TITLE

If you have been paying attention to the posts on this blog you have seen that the last line of each post mentions the title (or working title) of the next book in the Occupied Berlin series.

The time has come to reveal the title of the next book in the Occupied Berlin series:

SPANDAU GUARD

The story is set in West Berlin at the infamous (or notorious) SPANDAU PRISON. A US Army Infantry soldier and his colleagues serve guard duty during the month of December and spends the entire Christmas season guarding a war criminal. Military Forces, International Politics, and the aftermath of World War II in Berlin all play second fiddle to a rumor that has not changed since the first day Spandau Prison was re-opened for business by the British, French, Russians, and the Americans.

In western Berlin, Spandau Prison housed the seven Nazi's that were convicted at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. From the first day, the seven convicts arrived at Spandau until the 17th day of August 1987, each month the four World War II allies would take turns guarding the prison and its prisoners for month long rotation. The rotation went British, French, Soviet, and then the US. Each month, like clockwork this changeover of control of the prison went on without fail. No matter what the global political climate was, the changeover took place.

When it came to governing the future of the former German capital, this was one of the few things that all four World War II allies could agree upon. Keeping the seven most dangerous men in the world locked up. However, the true danger was not the former Nazi's but the place that was to be their home until their sentence was up. The true danger was the prison itself.

Since its inception, Spandau Prison had seen many things happen to bad people but when bad things started happening to good people, something changed. Spandau Prison became the first chamber of horrors that would become the definition of what a madman envisioned for the world, if he had it his way.

Set in the month of December (the U.S. Guard rotation month) and starting on the day of the changeover from the Soviets, a young G.I. is warned of some strange happenings when a Soviet private utters a single word as he is being relieved of his guard post.

While the spirit of Christmas may be in the air throughout the city of Berlin, at Spandau a different spirit is in the air. The young Infantry soldier soon finds that Spandau Guard means more than babysitting a group of old men, it means revealing a past that was supposed to be scrubbed clean and forgotten.

SPANDAU GUARD is set for an October 14, 2014 release. However, be on the lookout for excerpts to be released in the coming months. Additionally, an introduction will be published soon and available on Kindle and Nook for $0.00.

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AIR BRIDGE BERLIN & DOUGHBOY CITY is the historical fiction work for author, David G. Guerra. He has previously published "The Walking Leader" and is working on the next book in his Walking Leader trilogy of books, "Great To Follow" with "We, The Team" as the last book.

Order DOUGHBOY CITY: Signed Copy |  Amazon Kindle | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback | BN Nook

Order AIR BRIDGE BERLIN: Signed Copy | Amazon Kindle | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback | BN Nook

The next book in the Occupied Berlin series is SPANDAU GUARD.

Catching Up (27 JUNE 2014)

Greetings,
It has been a little over a week since the last log post and I thought it was time for another one.  Here it is!
There is really no subject other than just wanting to catch up with you.  The aside from reading not much has been going on here.  My family and I have been tending to our vegetable garden and have really enjoyed the fruits of our labor.

Here is shot of two beauties that will be ripe just in time for Independence Day and the mandatory Barbecue dinner (after all what's the 4th of July without Barbecue?)!


Now do not get me wrong, I have in writing.  I have not started working on the next book, will I have.  The outline is done, characters are in place, and the back-story, for the most part, is under control.  I have decided to take a little break in writing since the publication of "Air Bridge Berlin" but I will resume after the 4th of July (next week).

WOW, the month of June is all but done.  The year will be half of over.  Can you believe it?

I want to take this time to THANK everyone that has helped me with the writing of the book and those that have read my stories.  I really do appreciate it!

Two stories in six months, I do not know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.  I hope it is a good thing in that the stories I have been telling you like.  I know it is a bad thing because as I go back and reread the stories I see where I need to amplify more and where I do not need to amplify at all.  That along with a reader feedback will definitely make be a better writer, a better offer, and above all, a better storyteller.

Please let me know what to think. I really do I hear from you.  As always, you can write me at dave (at) daveguerra.com.

I will keep his brief and close for now. 

I do appreciate it and until next week,
Thank you,
David.

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AIR BRIDGE BERLIN & DOUGHBOY CITY is the historical fiction work for author, David G. Guerra. He has previously published "The Walking Leader" and is working on the next book in his Walking Leader trilogy of books, "Great To Follow" with "We, The Team" as the last book.

Order DOUGHBOY CITY: Signed Copy |  Amazon Kindle | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback | BN Nook

Order AIR BRIDGE BERLIN: Signed Copy | Amazon Kindle | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback | BN Nook


The next book in the Occupied Berlin series is UNTITLED PROJECT FOR A FALL 2014 RELEASE..