Download or read book The ''Merlin'' Compass written by Frank Nightingale and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not the usual science fiction. Exploiting history and legends before WWII, a prank, loving teen goes to Germany at a when neighbors struggled with the English language and talked with foreign accents, but were proud to be American citizens. Charles Lindbergh had crossed the Atlantic Ocean only a few years earlier and an airplane would still be watched until it flew out of sight. Telephones and radios were around, but these were the depression years, so most everyone did without those extravagances. Times were tough but, the people were tougher.