Gerald D. Cline Jr.

Baker was a shave-tail fresh out of OCS assigned his first platoon. He was green as grass and ready to screw up.

A book of short stories -- The Old Man Who Wakes Up the Sun: What if he fails? Will the sun still come up? Buford's Dilemma: All Buford had to do was guard the damn Yankee prisoner. But the damn Yankee prisoner was his brother-in-law. ein Arbet Lager (the Work Camp): The old woman accused Hans of murdering prisoners …

The Soldier in a Shallow Grave is a novella with four related short stories. John Newcomb disappears on his way home from Vietnam in 1971. The Army writes him off a deserter. Sixteen years later his body is discovered in a shallow grave at a construction site still wearing the remnants of his uniform and his dog-tags. …