The Air Bridge Between Berlin and Me
Gemütlichkeit OR Terroristador!
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
This is not a novel or novella, not a history or a travel book, not a memoir, nor just a few short stories that hang together with a few stanzas of poetry. It is all that mixed together like scrambled eggs. There are three intertwined stories: One is about the author in Germany as a student from 1961 to 1962. Then, from 1965 to 1968, he is an Air Force officer in Berlin at Tempelhof Airport. The third story is about his return to Berlin in 2023, as a former journalist, a poet, and an octogenarian. Why was he returning? Because Americans are beginning to see what Germans saw nearly a century ago.
Endorsements (2)
“Lance Carden has written a thoughtful, reflective book to share with the world. It captures an historic and troubled era of Germany, written at a troubled time here at home. In Germany he invites the reader to accompany him down memory lane with his wife, Charlene. Along the way we are reminded of Germany’s horrible past, now memorialized in many ways of contrition (some say too much contrition). There are disturbing comparisons with our current political dilemma, though mostly this is a story and poems about Germany at a time when the lessons of violence are all too present globally. Carden is also a poet, and his creative poems in this readable book invite the reader to pause and reflect, not just about Germany’s past and present, but about our place in a troubled world.”
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