Nebraska Doppelganger - Softcover

Morrow, Thomas J.

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ISBN 10: 1939625092 ISBN 13: 9781939625090

Publisher: Inkwell Books Llc, 2013

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“Nebraska Doppelganger” is about a young 18-year –old farm boy, John Krauss, from Broken Bow, Neb., who travels to Berlin for the Olympics in 1936. Afterward he enrollls in medical school to become a doctor. After two years of study, the Nazis try to enlist him as a spy. When he refuses he is drafted into Hitler's army. He ends up as a valet to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (The Desert Fox) in North Africa. When the Afrika Dorps surrenders, young John, now a sergeant, is taken by POW boat to America where he is interned at the Pow camp in Clarenda, Iowa, some 150 miles from his hometown. John escapes from the POW camp, makes it back home only to find a letter from the President of the United States waiting for him....and the odyssey starts all over again “Nebraska Doppelganger” was written as a historical novel. Some 80 percent of the book is true history. It was documented that several hundred American citizens were caught in enemy countries during WWII. Many were students, others were visiting relations. They were pressed into service against their own country, America.

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About the Author:

Tom Morrow spent 40 years in newspapers and public relations, along with a year of high school teaching and five years at a college. He holds three degrees (AA, BA, and Ph.D.) and currently is a senior vice president for communications for California Pacific Airlines in Carlsbad, California.A native of Iowa, Tom Morrow, graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in journalism, and for 42 years has worked as a writer at daily and weekly newspapers as well as a publicity and public relations executive in the San Diego area. Among his other novels are: “The Secret at Beckham Manor,” (a sequel to “Nebraska Doppelganger”), “The Beacon on Kill Devil Hill,” and “Haunted Bones,” all to be released soon by Inkwell Productions

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