As war rages overseas, many Americans strive to understand the pain and suffering of the courageous troops, fighting for our freedom. Poet Sarah Patricia Condor is one of these Americans, and she believes it is necessary to tell their story. She has read their letters, heard their stories, and seen their families in pain; but for Condor, the pain is much more personal. She is a child of the Cold War. Her family members have served in every major conflict in the twentieth century, from World War I to Afghanistan. She has seen the turmoil of the distraught wife, waiting for her soldier to...

This book continues closely Mark's adventures, another three days of his Escape. We have been acquainted with Mark in the previous volume of Escape, where we left him in Venice, after the bloodshed on the border and the adventure on the train from Vienna. He is all alone, and we can only expect more adversities and surprises await this former Olympic Swimmer in the few days to come. True, he is bold and adventurous, but also hungry and penniless. Above all, he appears to be ignorant of the fact that many people around him are very similar...

With almost two dozen collections of poetry published in the United States and Europe, Sarah Patricia Condor-Fisher is one of the most prolific modern poets. She masterfully uses rhyme as well as free verse to capture perennial philosophical dilemmas of human existence: love, death and war, but also our relationship to animals and Nature. In this book, she portrays the stream of consciousness of a nameless soldier during his last moments on Earth: he has valiantly fought in a nameless war, was severely wounded, lost his nameless friend, and is now attempting to survive in a nameless hospital...