Wartorn

by David Shipley

As a child, David’s father told him fantastical stories about his wartime adventures. How he’d learned to ski in the Bavarian alps; how he’d avoided certain capture and possible death by posing as an aristocratic German officer; how he’d fallen head over heels in love with a German “fräulein”. He thought they were just entertaining bedtime stories, only finding out after his father's death that they were true, and that there was a family living in Germany who could prove it.

Wartorn gives an account the father’s brushes with death and the son’s eventual realisation that he’d never really known who his father was.

260 pages, Paperback

Published March 3, 2025

About the author

Will Schwalbe left his job as senior vice president and editor in chief of a book publishing company to do a New Media startup. He also speaks frequently about email and information overload. Previously, he was a journalist, writing articles for such publications as The New York Times, the South China Morning Post, Insight for Asian Investors, Ms. Magazine, and Business Traveller Asia.
His website is www.thinkbeforeyousend.com."