by Willys K. Braun (2003)
From the farm in St. Louis to the mission fields of Africa, this autobiography traces the life and ministry of Dr. Willys Braun. Born in the Depression-era Midwest, Willys' life journey took him through Wheaton College, where he joined the great generation of career missionaries who bore the second wave of the gospel throughout the world. He and his wife, Thelma, traveled to the Belgian Congo by freighter during the dark days of World War II. In God's will, Africa became their home, a dearly beloved home. One African friend voiced a singular accolade near the end of their first term. "Tata Braun has a white skin," he said, "but he has a very black heart." The culmination of Willys Braun's journey was a God-driven effort to train lay pastors and evangelists to labor in fields which are still white for harvest. The great passion of his life was to obediently and faithfully follow the call he received while still a young man, uttered by God throughout time to all who will listen, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Me?" This book shines a light upon the life of one man who answered, "Here am I, send me!" - Back cover.
David Lehman
A one hundredth-birthday tribute to the iconic entertainer collects one hundred short reflections on subjects ranging from his childhood in Hoboken and emergence in the 1940s to his romantic entanglements and bonds with the Rat Pack.
Alma Dariel Hereford
This memoir recalls the lives of three sisters growing up in East Texas during the Depression and World War II. Their father and uncle were partners in a lubmer mill, which required them to move many times. It was difficult changing schools and meeting strange new kids. The strength and faith of their mother and the closeness of their three female cousins-- Sister, Tad, and Toot-- made it easier to cope after their father died. Although sad at times, this memoir is amusing and heartwarming --
Christopher Felix
"Based in part upon the author's sixteen years of U.S. intelligence work and his own Cold War experiences in Hungary after World War II, this now classic insider's look at international intelligence and secret operations explores the nature, principles, and techniques of international undercover operations. The author includes analyses of how they work and how well the United States - and the other major players - carry them out. This fourth edition has been updated to include a substantial new afterword featuring revelations on Raoul Wallenberg's fate, the author's reminiscences of British turncoat Kim Philby, and much more."--BOOK JACKET.
Scott Anderson
"Fred Cuny spent his life in terrible places. In countries rent by war, earthquake, famine, and hurricane, Cuny saved hundreds of thousands of lives with a fearlessness that amazed all who knew him. A Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Cuny grew ever more daring in his globe-trotting adventures as his motivations became murkier. Was he a danger junkie? A CIA spy? Or a man who truly believed he had the wits and courage to save the world?"--BOOK JACKET. "After twenty-five years of heroic work that earned Cuny the nickname "Master of Disaster," he set off to the rogue Russian republic of Chechnya, a land of gangsters and Islamic terrorists, a quasi-state engaged in an unimaginably savage war with a Russian army of drunken, brutal incompetents. Cuny went to try to stop the war, but for the first time in his life he was scared, unsure of himself in an insane landscape where betrayal and murder lurked behind every face. He failed to stop the horror, yet soon returned to Chechnya on a mysterious mission. Cuny was last seen on a lonely mountain road, headed for a rebel fortress that was being subjected to the most intense artillery bombardment since World War II."--BOOK JACKET. "War correspondent Scott Anderson became obsessed with Cuny's fate, and ventured into the deadly war zone himself in search of answers to several haunting questions: Whom was Cuny working for? What happened to him, and why? Most powerfully, what sort of man believes he can save the world?"--BOOK JACKET.