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By Bruce Zielsdorf

Green Card Soldier is the tale of Andro Babich--a naive, yet inquisitive Bosnian teenage football star--as instructed by means of Heath Winslow--a cynical, self-deprecating struggle correspondent. Set amidst the civil-war ravaged Balkans of the early '90s, Winslow recounts Andro's exploits, together with his bold break out to the United States the place he gets a eco-friendly card and joins the U.S. military, finally incomes his citizenship and a new lifestyles. ultimately he returns to post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina as a U.S. relief employee and discovers, via trial and tribulation, his life's goal and his position within the rebirth of his homeland.

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