When Private Breckles Enlisted

About the Book

When Carl Breckles joined the army to serve his mandatory two years, he takes an extra year on his enlistment to ensure he will serve in Europe and not Korea. During basic training at Ft. Riley, Kansas, Carl befriends Lasslett, a former air force enlistman who joined the army to support his new wife and child. The two buck against army regulations, but for different lifestyles, while servicing in the German town Bamberg, Germany. Lasslett goes to prison for disobeying orders after bringing his wife and child to Bamberg and going AWOL when the child becomes sick. Breckles is convinced he is sick while living a life of exceptions to military regulations but cannot convince the camp doctor of his malady. Lasslett dies in prison. Breckles gets admitted to an army hospital and is invalided home. While in Chicago a year later, Breckles is discharged from the hospital and the army and travels to Wisconsin to visit Lasslett’s wife. He wants to help her when he meets her at her family farm but grows unsure at what to do.

About the Author

After college and the army service in Europe, Donald Sinclair began writing short stories from the background of his newspaper work in Detroit and Ft. Lauderdale. But it was not until his retirement in 1998 that he had the time to devote to full-time fiction book writing from the experiences he encountered. He has written five novels to date and is currently working on a sixth. Sinclair currently lives in a marina community in suburban Detroit, overlooking Lake St. Clair.