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The headline in The Stars and Stripes reads: “The Berlin Wall Is a Fact.” Such is the time of this love story. Mike Goodman is a reluctant soldier, but he falls in love and does some growing during his service with the “Peace-Time” army despite the wall. Mike and his companions find their military adventure mostly trivial; sometimes surreal. Still they try to make sense of the institutional insanity. Laughter, beer and lovely Teutonic temptresses help them cope.

Initially, Mike Goodman finds love to be a miraculous escape mechanism amid the confusion. Then he meets Tina, with her twinkling, chestnut-colored eyes and more vivacity and charm than one woman deserves to monopolize. Their meeting proves to be costly.

The love story, not the love, ends in death. Even so, life goes on; so does the Cold War.