Neubrucke
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ABOUT THE BOOK When the Soviet Union shocked the world with the surprise launching of their Sputnik Satellite on October 4, 1957 it was a huge blow to American pride and caught the Space Agency as well as American intelligence agencies with their pants down. After a series of meaningless documents about a remote army hospital start showing up in the hands of the East German Stasi, American intelligence agencies become alarmed that it’s about to happen again. When US agents are sent to this backwater outpost in occupied Germany during the height of the cold war to learn what is going on, they discover a Communists plot to steal the secrets of a new computer communications technology that would give the Soviets an even greater advantage in the space race. Residents in the sleepy little village of Neubrücke, Germany and the military personnel stationed there with the recently deployed 98th General Hospital are blissfully unaware of the spy games going on around them. In this remote outpost in the French Zone of occupation in the southwest corner of Germany, the beer is good, the duty is mostly boring, and the only problem the GI’s stationed there have is trying to decide which gasthaus they want to go to tonight. However, when the 7424th Support Squadron starts remodeling and restructuring the Air Force communication facilities at the nearby Birkenfeld Tactical Air Base their world is about to be changed forever. Almost as soon as construction is started, rumors start spreading that what is advertised as just an upgrade to the existing facilities is in reality the installation of a top secret communications facility. As a result, Russian KGB and East German Stasi agents are sent to investigate. When Washington responds by sending agents of their own, Neubrücke, and the American GI’s that are stationed here are about to enter the Cold War.
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Residents in the sleepy little village of Neubrucke, Germany and the military personnel stationed there with the recently deployed 98th General Hospital are blissfully unaware of the spy games going on around them. In this remote outpost in the French Zone of occupation in the southwest corner of Germany, the beer is good, the duty is mostly boring, and the only problem the GI’s stationed there have is trying to decide which gasthaus they want to go to tonight. However, when the 7424th Support Squadron starts remodeling and restructuring the Air Force communication facilities at the nearby Birkenfeld Tactical Air Base their world is about to be changed forever. Almost as soon as construction is started, rumors start spreading that what is advertised as just an upgrade to the existing facilities is in reality the installation of a top secret communications facility. As a result, Russian KGB and East German Stasi agents are sent to investigate. When Washington responds by sending agents of their own, Neubrucke, and the American GI’s that are stationed here are about to enter the Cold War.
About the Author
FA (Freddie) Shepherd is a retired research chemist, retiring from Tennessee Eastman’s Research Laboratories in 1992. After retiring he began spending his winters playing golf and fishing at Bob’s Landing in Florida and his summers in a house that he built himself on TVA’s Cherokee Lake in East Tennessee. In 1995 he traveled to Russia and was in Moscow for their 50th anniversary celebration of the end of WW II. He also traveled to Great Britain and did some short term mission trips with Crossroads Missions building houses and churches in Mexico. He is an army veteran with service in Germany in 1958, and was in the Tennessee National Guard for more than 10 years. He is a Christian and has been a member of Colonial Heights Christian Church for more than 40 years. He now lives in Gray, Tennessee and enjoys playing golf and writing. Freddie has a way of seamlessly blending history with fiction and some of his own experiences to weave a variety of partly truth and partly fiction stories and tales.