John Callan has big dreams beyond his working class New Jersey roots. Under the mentorship of a world renowned historian, he expects to live a comfortable life as a college professor. A chance meeting with a beautiful New York socialite, however, sets off a chain of events that finds Callan parachuting into Normandy in 1944 with an ulterior motive that not only threatens the lives of the his teammates and the French Resistance Resistance Fighters he's sent to advise, but also the entire war effort. In a narrative alternating between the years just before the war and the heady days of the Normandy Campaign, Borrowed Brass is a tragic coming of age tale set in the heart of the sweeping drama of World War Two. It is a story of love, devotion, regret, and above all else, dreams realized and abandoned.
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