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    Comrades at Arms - Next Generation (Book II of Comrades at Arms)
    Comrades at Arms - Next Generation (Book II of Comrades at Arms)
    Comrades at Arms - Next Generation (Book II of Comrades at Arms)
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    Comrades at Arms - Next Generation (Book II of Comrades at Arms)

    By Aaron Pery

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    Rudi's dream of becoming a 'Sky Warrior' materializes when, after intensive training as a fighter pilot, he is recruited by the Jewish underground in Palestine to serve in the about to become a reality Israeli Air Force.
    Once the hostilities begin, Rudi quickly becomes a famous fighter pilot ace and a high ranking officer in the IDF as he participates in many hair-raising aerial dogfights.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAaron Pery
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781301400515
    Comrades at Arms - Next Generation (Book II of Comrades at Arms)
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    Aaron Pery

    As most authors might claim, I was always been a natural storyteller and voracious book reader. Somehow, I also knew that some day I would sit down and write a book, which I did quite recently.When I finally sat in front of my computer monitor to do just that, the words literally came pouring out. Before very long, I had written many books in various genres.At first, my prolific writing was mainly for the pleasure and self-entertainment involved, until I discocered Smashwords and ebooks, and here I am, a published author with a long list of books to my credit. And many more to come.

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      Comrades at Arms - Next Generation (Book II of Comrades at Arms) - Aaron Pery

      Comrades at Arms - Next Generation

      Aaron Pery

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      Copyright 2012 by Aaron Pery

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      Comrades at Arms - Next Generation

      Chapter One

      Rudi Steinhart's first recollections of life as a child were when, at the age of three, he fell off the horse that the ranch manager and his father's trusted friend Pedro Cisneros, had been leading around the corral. He could clearly remember tipping over the side of his saddle and falling quietly into the dust and horse droppings, lying there unhurt and only a little shaken up. Pedro became aware of the mishap right away and ran toward him with a look of concern on his weather-beaten face but, like the big hero in the movies, as he recalled it later in life, Rudi quickly stood up and began to dust himself off as though nothing had happened. Pedro stopped in mid stride and, with a big smile, turned around to bring the horse back to Rudi who, as he was being helped back onto the horse, hoped that Pedro would not notice the wince on his face as his sore posterior hit the hard saddle. Neither ever mentioned the incident, but Rudi always felt that it served to create a very special bond between them.

      His growing-up years were always shadowed by the twins. As much as he loved and admired them for their kindness to him, Rudi still felt that he had to hate them for the pure angels that they seemed to be. As he grew older he came to believe that both were very unique, the two purest people that the world had ever produced. Their grandmother, as fair as she had always been, tried to treat all of them equally but Rudi understood from a very tender age that no one could stop from comparing the twins' looks and behavior to that of a devil like himself without him coming up short.

      It truly rankled Rudi that when the three played together, be it in the mud or in the neatest room, he always looked like hell in the end while the two angels ended up looking as if they had just come out of the bath. In comparison to them, Rudi appeared and behaved like a wild cat, and being a natural prankster, he forever played tricks on everyone, especially the twins, and was always admonished for being unkind to them. Even the other kids on the ranch, the Gellers' and the Felders', looked up to the twins while they were scared to death of Rudi.

      Where the twins looked like the embodiment of Aryan perfection, Rudi was short and squat, with slightly swarthy skin which always turned almost black by the sun. He considered himself a midget next to them, looking extremely short and squat even after attaining his full height of 5'9" in later tears. Where they looked like athletes and were lithe as gazelles, Rudi was almost as wide as he was tall, looking like a day laborer or a dock worker. It seemed that the genes in the family pool had played a joke on poor Rudi, giving him pureblooded Semitic looks as though two thousand years of racial intermingling had skipped him altogether. He looked like the unadulterated image of a David, including the coppery, raven-haired locks.

      In spite of the great differences between him and the twins, Rudi had always readily admitted to his family that he had never suffered much from it--no ugly duckling syndrome. In fact, he rather enjoyed the notoriety of being the terror of the family. His grandmother had nicknamed him 'Mazick'," devil, and he knew that he fully deserved it though he realized that her name for him was the result of affection rather than derision.

      The best of times for Rudi were when he would run free on the ranch, wild and free as a mustang; barefoot and dressed only in short leather pants, to the horror of his nurse Lisle who was sure he would end up being eaten by a wild Puma some day. He did have an encounter with one, but considered it a highly overrated wild animal since it turned tail and ran as soon as he chased it with a large stick.

      He was allowed to run wild only for the first five years of his life. One day, Rabbi Geller took him on a business trip to a neighboring estancia and they had to land the plane that the rabbi had used, and sleep out in the open overnight. After finishing their food both sat around the fire and the rabbi told Rudi Biblical stories of the fierce warriors that had lived and fought in the hills of Judea, of Hebrew Kings who had defeated enemy forces ten times their size, Kings like Saul and David; their ancestors. Rudi was utterly fascinated by the stories and demanded to know everything about his heritage but stopping him with his finger on his lips, the rabbi said:

      Read the books my boy read the books; it is all there for you to learn about.

      And indeed, it was. Despite being just five years old at the time, Rudi, just like the twins, was able to read, write, and speak Spanish, Hebrew, and German quite well. He began reading and quickly discovered a world much more interesting than the wild Argentinean Pampas, a world so fascinating beyond any imagination that became hooked on it forever. Suddenly, the childish pranks were gone and everyone worried about his new sedate state. Rabbi Geller took him on one of his trips to Montevideo to deliver a load of fresh beef to a very wealthy general, in one of the many ranch light airplanes, and they had an opportunity to talk man to man. The Rabbi seriously asked Rudi what he wanted to do when he grew up, and the only answer Rudi could come up with was that he wanted to become a famous warrior, like all the Biblical heroes that he had told him had existed. Realizing how important the moment was, Rabbi Geller, who felt like a surrogate father to the boy, told him that the days of the sword and shield have been gone for quite a while, and that a warrior had to be extremely well educated to become famous. When Rudi asked him why, he pointed at their plane and asked him if he knew what it was. When Rudi seemed baffled by the question, he quietly explained.

      You see son, this is the horse and chariot of the new warrior. It is a means of locomotion, a shield, and a sword. It has proven its ability to do all those things during the Great War, and it is fast developing into the single most important war machine of the twentieth century. It is becoming more advanced daily, and I am sure that by the time you grow up it will have become one of the most complicated pieces of machinery the world has ever known. But to be able to control such a machine properly one would have to study harder than anyone, mastering math, physics, astronomy, engineering, and much more. If that is what you want to do when you grow up, then you must start now.

      It was quite a revelation for Rudi. He had never thought of the airplane as a weapon before and the rabbi's prophecy about its future uses had been enlightening. There was no doubt in his mind that he had to dedicate himself to becoming the best educated warrior on earth, and as soon as he returned home he set all the wheels in motion. He spoke with George Felder, the ranch manager, and asked him for help in math, and from Rabbi Geller he received wide ranging lessons in general history. Elated by his sudden thirst for knowledge, both obliged by helping as much as they could. Rudi's grandmother was apprised of his search and sent him to spend a whole summer with Uncle Willie in Buenos Aires, hoping that Willie would be able to expand his horizons even further. Six years old at the time, Rudi had carried himself like a young man three times his age, which impressed everyone around him except for his grandmother, who thought him a mental mirror image of his father.

      Uncle Willie had served as a combat pilot during the war and therefore understood Rudi's unrelenting interest in flying war machines. He did not try to glorify his part in the war and told him the truth about the hardships and grime involved. By then Rudi had managed to read some firsthand accounts of fighter pilots from both sides and was a little surprised that all of them were full of stories about their glory and chivalry, but never a word about the killing. When he questioned Willie about the difference

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