title: Tales of the Waldental Inn
author: McGraw, Ron
description: In this unforgettable literary novel, Ron McGraw has written this contemporary answer to Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Comfortably established in a German village with a dozen comrades during the Cold War, Army Intelligence Specialist Greg Barnes believes he's got it made. With a room in the quaint Waldental Inn and relatively free of Army discipline, all he has to do is wait out his enlistment before returning to medical school. Fate, however, steps in during pre-Lenten Fasching celebrations in the form of a beautiful young woman from Berlin, Barbra von Kronstadt. Inescapably drawn to one another, their love eventually forces Greg to resent the Army and causes Barbra to oppose her aristocratic family and its obligations. Their story is the lacing that binds the novel and is just one among many memorable tales that evolve around the Waldental Inn.