Bandy, John When Whippoorwills Call ISBN 13: 9780595212729

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A 16 year-old high school dropout leaves home to avoid incarceration in a Juvenile Court Detention Center for placement in an orphanage. Using a falsified birth certificate he enlists in the army where he finds himself in an extremely hostile environment. Seeking refuge in the army, he discovers that he cannot run away from himself or escape the family curse. As a member of the elite United States Army Constabulary in occupied-Germany, he faces the greatest challenge of his life amid the war torn ruins of a conquered nation.The book describes, in lurid detail, the misadventures of the men in the lower echelons of the military establishment and the effects of their relationships with the German populace. As a fraudulent enlistee, he lives in constant fear of being discovered. He is further plagued by premonitions of doom by the family "curse", the result of an unconscionable sin committed by his maternal grandfather. Born into an impoverished, dysfunctional family in the middle of the Great Depression, he struggles to overcome the indoctrination of inferiority and social ostracism resulting from his mother's alcoholism.The story traces the family history from his ancestors' 19th century Mississippi plantation to the early 1950s in segregated Birmingham, Alabama.

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A high school dropout, John Bandy joined the army at age sixteen. Twenty years later, he retired as a Sergeant-Major at the Pentagon. He then returned to school under the G.I. Bill, earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Elementary Education. He taught in Alabama public schools for nineteen years.

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  • PublisheriUniverse
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0595212727
  • ISBN 13 9780595212729
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages714

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