Following Polaris Author:Robert Berens Don Bauer returns to a radically changed Midwest after World War II. Scarred by the Great Depression and now traumatized by years of war fighting, Bauer draws upon a suspect intuition to shape his future. He stumbles upon the GI Bill and attends State University ... sort of. He plays football, he boxes, he dances - and he meets the enticing Jan ... more »Dallas. Jan, an ahead-of-her-time Fine Arts Major, brings orderliness to his life ... sort of. Throughout, Bauer is haunted by wartime flashbacks and Cold War anguishes. Ultimately, he succumbs to the charm of war and goes off to battle again, in Korea ... even as he dreads the vagaries of combat.« less