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Crush
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Heat
Two Stories of the Napa Valey
by Carl F. Heintze
The Napa and other valleys north of San Francisco Bay are the settings for these two novellas.
In Crush Charles Henry, a San Jose newspaper reporter, is enlisted by Gina Cefalu, a wealthy Napa Valley widow and former high school classmate, to try and find her missing son who has mysteriously vanished from his home and his marriage without leaving a message.
Henry agrees, but only after Gina has awakened the feeble flame of their former romance. Henry’s search proceeds through the Napa Valley and beyond with visits to the missing man’s brother, estranged from his mother, the brother’s wife, with hints from Esperanza, a woman who works at he Home Vineyard, the winery Gina has inherited from her husband. Along the way are surprises and twists and turns before the end of the search.
Heat is about another valley and another time long ago. A boy, Charles, perhaps Charles Henry, is working picking windfall peaches for his Uncle Will. The ranch lies at the edge of wild lands on which deer and even mountain lions range. A fire threatens the ranch and its crop, requiring of Charles and Uncle Will swift and difficult actions.
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212 pages • 5" x 8"
ISBN: 978-1-935125-86-0
Published by: Robertson Publishing (RP)
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All They Had
Stories of War and it's Aftermath
by Carl F. Heintze
All They Had is about the comradeship of men at war and the trials which followed, told in a series of related short stories by Carl Heintze, an infantry replacement himself.
Band of Brothers? They were the dregs, the last manpower left to fight the closing days of World War II. They were the cast offs of service commands, the Air Force rejects. They were the college boys the Army had hoarded until then in the Army Specialized Training Program, the 18-year-olds just old enough to be drafted, but not to buy a drink. With inadequate and hasty training these infantry replacements were rushed overseas to fill the gaps in the frontline left by unexpected casualties.
For the Army, as usual, had miscalculated. The war had gone on longer than planned; new bodies were needed immediately.
They learned quickly, and if they didn’t, they became casualties themselves. And by their presence they brought the war in Europe to a close; they created a peace, they began a new world—a world bright with hope yet stained by the past.
They were indeed all we had, and all they had, they gave. They emerged into a strange new world of rubble and ruin which surrounded them in the fretful peace which followed the end of the war.
They were hardly a band of brothers, but for a little while they were comrades, and the memory of that time would be with them as long as they lived.
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181 pages • 5" x 8"
ISBN: 978-1-935125-03-7
Published by: Robertson Publishing (RP)
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An Island in the Turquoise Sea
Stories of Kauai
by Carl Heintze
“We all live on islands,” a old man counsels in “An Island in the Turquoise Sea,” the opening story in this collection of short stories by Carl Heintze.
But all islands are not the same. “An Island in the Turquoise Sea” tells of a special island, Kauai, the northern most inhabited of the Hawaiian islands, the first to emerge from the ocean eons ago. Its subject is its natives and its visitors. Once dependent on sugar cane, but now a tourists’ dream Kauai has drawn Heintze to it each year for thirty years.
“An Island in the Turquoise Sea” is his tribute to the island. In it Carl describes those who have lived there all their lives and those come for the first time. His stories tell how the island, though seemingly eternal, brings change, of how its trade winds, showers, clouds and surf offer new vistas, new life and new beginnings. Two of these stories are prize winners, but all are bewitching. Like Kauai itself, truly an island in the turquoise sea, they are unique.
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220 pages • 5" x 8"
ISBN: 978-1-935125-53-2
Published by: Robertson Publishing (RP)
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Carl Heintze fought in the closing days of WWII. He served in Belgium and Germany in 1944 and 1945, fought in the opening days of the Battle of the Huertgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge and crossed the Rhine River on the Remagen Bridge the day after it was captured. He was wounded Jan. 1, 1945 in the Ardennes campaign and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star, and served in the occupation before returning to his home in San Jose, California.
He retired from a lifetime career as a newspaperman. He is the author of half a dozen published short stories, ten juvenile science books, and ten years of columns for the Silicon Valley Newspaper Group.
To contact Carl send and email to CarlHeintze@juno.com.
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Teen seeks stories of Latino veterans
By Dana Hull, Mercury News, Tue, Dec. 28, 2004
High school student Robert Corpus, right, interviews
World War II veteran Carl Heintze about his experiences.
Photo: Patrick Tehan / Mercury News
...On a recent afternoon, Robert raced from school... to interview Carl Heintze, a World War II veteran who was at the December 1944 German offensive that became known as the Battle of the Bulge.
Robert's vast knowledge was quickly evident. He asked Heintze a number of questions about his life growing up in Napa and his student days at Stanford, then moved to basic training and the theater of war.
"Did you come in on LCTs?'' he asked, referring to the landing craft tanks used to transport equipment, supplies and soldiers from ship to land. When he asked Heintze to describe what the war smelled and sounded like, Heintze talked at length about mortar shells raining into his foxhole. "I was scared to death,'' Heintze said. "I started digging the hole deeper.''...
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