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Exploring the complexities of memory, war, and human motivation.
The Bridge - Out Now
The Bridge - Out Now
Alan Ramias began writing stories as a child and never stopped. After graduating from Merrill High School in Wisconsin in 1965—just as the Vietnam War was escalating—he served as an Army reporter and editor, documenting life on the ground in the Mekong Delta and other regions. When he returned home, he earned degrees in English, Philosophy, and an MBA, launching a corporate career that blended communication, learning, and performance strategy.
At Motorola, Alan helped found Motorola University and played a key role in early process improvement projects that laid the groundwork for Six Sigma. He later became a partner at the Rummler-Brache Group, leading global consulting engagements for major companies like Shell, 3M, and HP, and mentoring teams across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. As a partner at The Performance Design Lab, he co-authored two foundational books on organizational performance with his mentor, Geary Rummler.
Now turning his attention back to storytelling, Alan draws on decades of personal and professional insight to craft fiction that explores the complexities of memory, war, and human motivation.
The Bridge is not your typical Vietnam War novel. Alan Ramias weaves together fiction, raw memory, poetic fragments, and documentary realism to deliver an unvarnished account of what it meant to serve, survive, and remember.
Moving between gritty squad banter, haunting lyricism, and the quiet desperation of men unprepared for the long shadows of war, this is a novel unafraid to dig beneath the skin.
Through the eyes of Brannick, Hanson, Mills, Sergeant Creek, Lieutenant Chester, and a cast of characters as scarred as the landscape, Ramias drops us into the humid confusion of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
It’s a world where bravado is a mask, every day is borrowed, and the line between heroism and survival blurs.
For readers of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Karl Marlantes’ Matterhorn, and anyone searching for a Vietnam novel that doesn’t flinch.
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