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From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom
A true and touching human tale of survival and achievement.
When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. “You must have a future,” his grandfather told him before he and his parents boarded the train and waved goodbye.
As they trekked across the country, from Vienna to Prague and then finally settling in Shanghai, there was never a single moment Stoessinger was not afraid—he lived in constant fear that he and his family would be found and killed. However, even in Hitler-ruled Nazi Germany, there were plenty of people who refused to cower to absolute evil and who did everything they could to usher families like Stoessinger’s to freedom.
In From Holocaust to Harvard, Stoessinger recalls heartbreaking moments from his childhood and of living a life of secrets in Shanghai. He then presents the second part of his story—the part where he attempts to untangle himself from his previous life and devastating memories and is able to relocate to America, earn a graduate-level degree from a prestigious university, and later become a member of the Council on Foreign Relations despite making a decision that nearly lands him in prison and threatens his hard-earned freedom.
Throughout his story, Stoessinger expresses his gratitude to those who helped him through the toughest parts of this life and put him on a path that led him to a Harvard education, a successful career, and inner peace.
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. “You must have a future,” his grandfather told him before he and his parents boarded the train and waved goodbye.
As they trekked across the country, from Vienna to Prague and then finally settling in Shanghai, there was never a single moment Stoessinger was not afraid—he lived in constant fear that he and his family would be found and killed. However, even in Hitler-ruled Nazi Germany, there were plenty of people who refused to cower to absolute evil and who did everything they could to usher families like Stoessinger’s to freedom.
In From Holocaust to Harvard, Stoessinger recalls heartbreaking moments from his childhood and of living a life of secrets in Shanghai. He then presents the second part of his story—the part where he attempts to untangle himself from his previous life and devastating memories and is able to relocate to America, earn a graduate-level degree from a prestigious university, and later become a member of the Council on Foreign Relations despite making a decision that nearly lands him in prison and threatens his hard-earned freedom.
Throughout his story, Stoessinger expresses his gratitude to those who helped him through the toughest parts of this life and put him on a path that led him to a Harvard education, a successful career, and inner peace.
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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December 7, 2016
From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness and Freedom is an extraordinary memoir of the life of prolific bestselling author Dr. John G. Stoessinger PhD (1927-) political scientist, former professor's of several prestigious universities, and service for the United Nations. Dr. Stoessinger (JGS) serves as Distinguished Professor of Global Diplomacy at University of San Diego, and visiting lecturer at the University of California.
As a child, JGS watched in awe as Hitler arrived in his birthplace of Vienna, celebrated with a marching band, as the Nazi's thundered into the city. As a Jewish youth, he was soon terrorized and badly beaten by other students, his mother would relocate them to the safety of Prague where his grandparents lived, there she would remarry. JGS was haunted throughout his life by the loss of his father, he wouldn't learn the truth behind his mysterious disappearance until late adulthood. Oskar, his stepfather, despised him for unknown reasons and beat him. However, Oskar had connections to flee Nazi persecution, and took his new family to Shanghai, China. Terribly unsettled by the ordeal, JGS was thankful to be alive, made a close friend Rusty. Receiving notice for his exceptional academic progress, he later earned a full scholarship to an American college in Iowa, where he relocated, not sharing the news of his good fortune until the last minute.
Excelling in his academic studies, JGS received a full graduate scholarship to Harvard. So focused on his studies, his goals and dreams were of becoming a prestigious academic. JGS nearly lost this chance with a pregnant girlfriend, and was almost deported. A quick marriage brought him full acceptance by his wealthy father-in-law, who planned for JGS to manage his vast business holdings. JGS outright rejected this generous offer, and fled to Harvard, eventually his wife divorced him and another man would raise his only son.
Academic study acted as a security for JGS, where he fully thrived and caught the notice and was mentored by a distinguished Harvard professor, another close friend was Henry Kissinger; who later was the subject of one of his books. Drawn to the thrill of buying and selling stocks and commodities, JGS would make and loose vast sums of money. He would become a notable professor at Harvard, and later served as acting director of political affairs at the United Nations.
Finding stability and a measure of happiness with his second wife, a concert pianist, they had a daughter. He would catch the eye of a seemingly popular international political figure who claimed connections to further advance/publish his books. Flattered by her admiration for his work, she soon became his mistress. Through JGS letters of recommendation, this woman was able to illegally obtain favors and funds from foreign banks, and implicated JGS involvement. Federal charges were filed against him. Eventually JGS was cleared in court, and received a full pardon from Ronald Regan in 1985. Considering the stress of this tremendous ordeal, his second marriage ended in a bitter divorce.
With the need to start over, JGS accepted a position to teach at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. A new relationship would bring him a sense of renewed love and hope. Janis would encourage him in the direction of family connections, he would hear from his adult son, and she would greatly support him when his mother died of Alzheimer's. It is unclear why JGS relationship with Janis ended. Later in his life JGS reconnected with the Japanese diplomat who saved his life; with Rusty and his wife of over 60 years. JGS inability to form lasting connections with significant others in his life may be found in the true story related to his father, that he learned when he visited his elderly paternal uncle in Vienna. We can easily agree with JGS that he was seriously lacking as a husband and father and sense his profound disappointment. Still, JGS is a brilliant man, his academic achievements and public service are exceptional, he has certainly led a fascinating, exciting, and full life. The audiobook version of this story is excellent.
As a child, JGS watched in awe as Hitler arrived in his birthplace of Vienna, celebrated with a marching band, as the Nazi's thundered into the city. As a Jewish youth, he was soon terrorized and badly beaten by other students, his mother would relocate them to the safety of Prague where his grandparents lived, there she would remarry. JGS was haunted throughout his life by the loss of his father, he wouldn't learn the truth behind his mysterious disappearance until late adulthood. Oskar, his stepfather, despised him for unknown reasons and beat him. However, Oskar had connections to flee Nazi persecution, and took his new family to Shanghai, China. Terribly unsettled by the ordeal, JGS was thankful to be alive, made a close friend Rusty. Receiving notice for his exceptional academic progress, he later earned a full scholarship to an American college in Iowa, where he relocated, not sharing the news of his good fortune until the last minute.
Excelling in his academic studies, JGS received a full graduate scholarship to Harvard. So focused on his studies, his goals and dreams were of becoming a prestigious academic. JGS nearly lost this chance with a pregnant girlfriend, and was almost deported. A quick marriage brought him full acceptance by his wealthy father-in-law, who planned for JGS to manage his vast business holdings. JGS outright rejected this generous offer, and fled to Harvard, eventually his wife divorced him and another man would raise his only son.
Academic study acted as a security for JGS, where he fully thrived and caught the notice and was mentored by a distinguished Harvard professor, another close friend was Henry Kissinger; who later was the subject of one of his books. Drawn to the thrill of buying and selling stocks and commodities, JGS would make and loose vast sums of money. He would become a notable professor at Harvard, and later served as acting director of political affairs at the United Nations.
Finding stability and a measure of happiness with his second wife, a concert pianist, they had a daughter. He would catch the eye of a seemingly popular international political figure who claimed connections to further advance/publish his books. Flattered by her admiration for his work, she soon became his mistress. Through JGS letters of recommendation, this woman was able to illegally obtain favors and funds from foreign banks, and implicated JGS involvement. Federal charges were filed against him. Eventually JGS was cleared in court, and received a full pardon from Ronald Regan in 1985. Considering the stress of this tremendous ordeal, his second marriage ended in a bitter divorce.
With the need to start over, JGS accepted a position to teach at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. A new relationship would bring him a sense of renewed love and hope. Janis would encourage him in the direction of family connections, he would hear from his adult son, and she would greatly support him when his mother died of Alzheimer's. It is unclear why JGS relationship with Janis ended. Later in his life JGS reconnected with the Japanese diplomat who saved his life; with Rusty and his wife of over 60 years. JGS inability to form lasting connections with significant others in his life may be found in the true story related to his father, that he learned when he visited his elderly paternal uncle in Vienna. We can easily agree with JGS that he was seriously lacking as a husband and father and sense his profound disappointment. Still, JGS is a brilliant man, his academic achievements and public service are exceptional, he has certainly led a fascinating, exciting, and full life. The audiobook version of this story is excellent.
November 11, 2020
An almost unbelievable autobiographical account of an AMAZING life! At first, I was skeptical, then I was sucked in, then I became a fan. This author was no saint, as he freely admitted; but he lived in exciting, sometimes perilous, times and survived to tell the tale. And what a tale! Intrigued by the title, I fell for it on BookBub. So glad I did. The writing style was not particularly memorable; but once the narrative really got up to speed, I forgot that. All was forgiven.
October 3, 2015
I'm not sure why he wrote this book. Nearing the end of his life - the need to summarize it. The subtitle: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom. I'm assuming this refers to the Holocaust, but it seems to me it's about himself. He was always escaping. He needs to forgive himself and others. And, hopefully he will find freedom. I picked up the book because he was a young boy (10 years old) in Vienna when Hitler annexed Austria. He and his mother and step-father (a brute) escape via Prague and then Shanghai. The part about Shanghai interested me. I've read other books about the Holocaust by survivors (or survivor's children). I very much enjoyed The Hare with the Amber Eye. The second half or 3/4 of the book is about his life in the USA. He's terrible with relationships - female; lots of females. He has an estranged relationship with his daughter. He had a relationship with a woman which caused a criminal sentence (no jail time, but he did volunteer to teach a course in prison - this part was interesting.) He didn't even attend his mother's funeral. (Also, he had a terrible case of shingles in one of his eyes. SHINGLES can be terrible. My mother had it. I've had the shingles vaccine.) Here's a man who likes to think and write about global issues, but one-to-one, there seems to be a major disconnect.
On the positive, I like this passage from p. 93:
" Perhaps my own experiences had altered my perspective, but it seemed to me that what Americans had experience on a world level did not give the country a unique kind of innocence. When Americans spoke of World War I, I recalled that the combined Anglo-French losses in a single day at the Somme River were greater than America's losses in the entire war, to say nothing of the fact that the war had been waged four thousand miles away from the United States. In World War II, Russia and Germany each lost more men at Stalingrad than America lost in all her wars put together. In China, I had seen abject, grinding poverty and squalor and when Americans spoke of their Great Depression, I recalled that, in the depression, unemployment had been the crucial problem. But in China, more people were dying of starvation at the time than there were Americans being born in the United States.
And, then there was the Holocaust: the murder of six million European Jews, including one million children. Tragedy was too weak a word to describe this event. There was simply no words for it, only memory, and for each survivor, his own special hell. For me, there was my grandparents, falling into their grave -- a mass grave.
The more I studied the United States and the other superpowers, the more I realized that bridges had to be built between them. Each would have to understand the other's history and culture. If we allowed ourselves to be blinded by simpleminded myths and misconceptions, we were doomed. But I began to believe that even understanding was not enough. Nations also had to learn to feel each other with their souls. The other alternative--which I, unlike most Americans, had seen first hand--was horrendous tragedy, whether it took the form of nuclear war or the terror of a totalitarian regime.
This where I came to differ with some of my colleagues, and in a very serious manner. The old chessboard power politics had failed and history had moved too quickly. What was needed now was the kind of empathy that flowed from the final knowledge that ultimate tragedy was not only possible, but imminent."
On the positive, I like this passage from p. 93:
" Perhaps my own experiences had altered my perspective, but it seemed to me that what Americans had experience on a world level did not give the country a unique kind of innocence. When Americans spoke of World War I, I recalled that the combined Anglo-French losses in a single day at the Somme River were greater than America's losses in the entire war, to say nothing of the fact that the war had been waged four thousand miles away from the United States. In World War II, Russia and Germany each lost more men at Stalingrad than America lost in all her wars put together. In China, I had seen abject, grinding poverty and squalor and when Americans spoke of their Great Depression, I recalled that, in the depression, unemployment had been the crucial problem. But in China, more people were dying of starvation at the time than there were Americans being born in the United States.
And, then there was the Holocaust: the murder of six million European Jews, including one million children. Tragedy was too weak a word to describe this event. There was simply no words for it, only memory, and for each survivor, his own special hell. For me, there was my grandparents, falling into their grave -- a mass grave.
The more I studied the United States and the other superpowers, the more I realized that bridges had to be built between them. Each would have to understand the other's history and culture. If we allowed ourselves to be blinded by simpleminded myths and misconceptions, we were doomed. But I began to believe that even understanding was not enough. Nations also had to learn to feel each other with their souls. The other alternative--which I, unlike most Americans, had seen first hand--was horrendous tragedy, whether it took the form of nuclear war or the terror of a totalitarian regime.
This where I came to differ with some of my colleagues, and in a very serious manner. The old chessboard power politics had failed and history had moved too quickly. What was needed now was the kind of empathy that flowed from the final knowledge that ultimate tragedy was not only possible, but imminent."
November 11, 2020
First 30% is about his young life and how he escaped the Nazi's and survived. The latter 70% is about his college life, family (or lack of), and career in America. I do not want to downplay his struggles, however, I was disappointed in the overall fact that this story is more of his struggles in America and less about what the title implies of him escaping the Holocaust.
February 13, 2021
More like 2.5 stars. I found the earlier part of the book most interesting; how he escaped Austria with his mother and step father, the very little he offered about his life in Kobe and then Shanghai. For a memoir, he presents his life in a very sketchy manner. We actually learn very little about him. For example, we find out that he had a grown daughter, but her birth, and the relationship with his wife with regard to his daughter was not mentioned. He said he left Shanghai with his new name of John Stoessinger, but not how he arrived at that name.
My mother attended Hunter College in the later part of the 1960's when I was already a young teenager. She majored in political science, and John Stoessinger was her professor. This is part of the reason I wanted to read this book. Dr. Stoessinger was a household name. My mother loved his classes. She would come home from school, fascinated by what she had learned and would discuss the lectures at our dinner table. Hunter College was a short subway ride from the United Nations, and Dr. Stoessinger would have various UN dignitaries as guest lecturers. It was a very interesting time to be a political science student in New York.
I can't say I like the man, who outside of his talents, was a philanderer and gambler, and for all of his brilliance about world events, didn't recognize the con job his lover was pulling on him. He thought he was riding high on money, power, hubris and sex.
My mother attended Hunter College in the later part of the 1960's when I was already a young teenager. She majored in political science, and John Stoessinger was her professor. This is part of the reason I wanted to read this book. Dr. Stoessinger was a household name. My mother loved his classes. She would come home from school, fascinated by what she had learned and would discuss the lectures at our dinner table. Hunter College was a short subway ride from the United Nations, and Dr. Stoessinger would have various UN dignitaries as guest lecturers. It was a very interesting time to be a political science student in New York.
I can't say I like the man, who outside of his talents, was a philanderer and gambler, and for all of his brilliance about world events, didn't recognize the con job his lover was pulling on him. He thought he was riding high on money, power, hubris and sex.
February 1, 2019
This was a fascinating autobiography about a Jewish boy of ten living in Austria when the Nazis took over the country. Unlike what is implied with the title, the author was not taken to any of the concentration or death camps as he moved with his mother staying one step ahead, first to Prague, then to Shanghai in China where he was interned by the Japanese along with other westerners. A couple of Japanese diplomats helped to keep his family from being kept with other Jews as Nazis had requested. While he was not personally sent to the camps, his life was a struggle. After the war ended an American soldier he had befriended helped him apply for a college visa to a midwestern university. From there he eventually was accepted into Harvard graduate school but with challenges along the way like a pregnant girlfriend whom he married then left. Not the most admirable individual I’ve read about, but credit must be given to his drive to succeed, likely grounded in his early childhood experiences. Yet another viewpoint on the effects of the Holocaust even on those not swallowed up by it, although his grandparents did get murdered in the camps because they couldn’t afford the cost to take them along to Shanghai together.
November 16, 2025
Honestly, he deserved his second wife going after all his money and being angry. I hate to say it, but just like his father, he's a very self-serving person and left behind two children to two different women he couldn't be faithful to once and blamed them for making him marry him...he almost went to jail once because of the stupidity of one of his affairs, and it's not even his fault at that point…I mean, come on now, some accountability there would be great. Now he's having yet another affair on his lovely wife who he set out to marry, and she tried her best to be everything for him, and still, he cheats on her. This man is clearly so broken and fixated on achievement that he never stops to notice what's around him. As a memoir about the Holocaust, it definitely was not overly focused on that and more about his bad decisions over his lifetime.
November 27, 2016
Fascinating memoir about a boy who escapes Austria with his family, ends up in Shanghai and by many different strokes of luck ends up in America with a scholarship for his undergraduate studies and also to Harvard where he is introduced to many political science intellectuals. Personal relationships elude him but his naivete brings him to the brink of disaster. The book kept me interested and being a good read allowed me to finish it quickly.
October 23, 2020
Holocaust
I have read a few books about the Holocaust and realize this horrible time in history happened about time I was born. I don’t remember it talked about that much during my school years. This , like many other books shows the horror and terrifying time in innocent lives that was out of their control. I am so thankful many brave people have shared their stories. We must not forget what Hitler was able to do!! Just because they were Jews, how could it happen?
I have read a few books about the Holocaust and realize this horrible time in history happened about time I was born. I don’t remember it talked about that much during my school years. This , like many other books shows the horror and terrifying time in innocent lives that was out of their control. I am so thankful many brave people have shared their stories. We must not forget what Hitler was able to do!! Just because they were Jews, how could it happen?
October 23, 2020
An extraordinary life
Written with fluency and honesty. John recalls the trauma as well as the triumphs in his life with pride and humility. Written near the of his life he meets up again with early friends and lifesavers. Moving as he struggles as most of us do with what life gives us.
Written with fluency and honesty. John recalls the trauma as well as the triumphs in his life with pride and humility. Written near the of his life he meets up again with early friends and lifesavers. Moving as he struggles as most of us do with what life gives us.
May 15, 2022
I have read many books surrounding the holocaust and this one like so many others was surprisingly very different, I enjoyed the read and found myself asking many questions about life war and politics, faith and many other topics around family marriage and children. Like so many of the other stories I have read this one two is just as important and am grateful that I read.
November 28, 2016
John stoessinger's story of his remarkable life.
Mr. Stoessinger is a wonderful author. He brought his life alive with his history of the holocaust, escape and education followed by his colorful life
Mr. Stoessinger is a wonderful author. He brought his life alive with his history of the holocaust, escape and education followed by his colorful life
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August 1, 2019This is the story of a boy that escapes to Austria, goes to China, and eventually to America. Through a series of lucky breaks, he receives scholarships to several prestigious schools. The book held my attention.
January 4, 2025
A different take on the Holocaust memoirs that exist. Here we see a man that has been quite fortunate, several times, to have avoided the outcome as many Jews, and we see what he has done with his life - complete with his shortcomings.
September 17, 2014
It would be interesting to read Stoessinger’s story written by someone other than himself. Why? First of all he does not give himself enough credit for his achievements and the difficult path he had to wander. Secondly he is far too attached and close to the events, especially in his personal relationships, to open up about them or be objective.
Instead throughout the book there is a level of disconnect, which is completely normal for people who have been through horrific trauma, especially during the Holocaust.
Whilst he is describing his relationships there seems to be a lack of conscious thought about his own role in the failure of his relationships. The almost indifferent way he talks about his philandering, his abandonment of wives and children, and the femme fatale, who almost destroys him.
If you go all the way back to the lack of a father in his life, and the way his mother didn’t protect him from his abusive stepfather, things become clearer. It is almost as if he didn’t want to subject his own children to the disappointment of being hurt by him. Ironically that is exactly what happened anyway.
Being pulled from the arms of his beloved grandparents, the only ones who really showed any compassion or warmth for him, is probably the root and cause of most of his emotional problems. The fact his mother and stepfather couldn’t save them is secondary to the fact that in his mind he is the one who abandoned them and couldn’t save them from the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
On top of that horrific thought and knowing they must have suffered, is the knowledge that their bodies are in a mass grave. Nameless, homeless, unclaimed and forever beyond reach for him.
When I say emotional I mean his complete detachment from his own experiences and choices, as he tells the story of his life. I think without knowing it Stoessinger has actually opened up a very large window into his heart and soul, perhaps just not the window he planned to present and open in this book.
I received a copy of this book via Edelweiss.
Instead throughout the book there is a level of disconnect, which is completely normal for people who have been through horrific trauma, especially during the Holocaust.
Whilst he is describing his relationships there seems to be a lack of conscious thought about his own role in the failure of his relationships. The almost indifferent way he talks about his philandering, his abandonment of wives and children, and the femme fatale, who almost destroys him.
If you go all the way back to the lack of a father in his life, and the way his mother didn’t protect him from his abusive stepfather, things become clearer. It is almost as if he didn’t want to subject his own children to the disappointment of being hurt by him. Ironically that is exactly what happened anyway.
Being pulled from the arms of his beloved grandparents, the only ones who really showed any compassion or warmth for him, is probably the root and cause of most of his emotional problems. The fact his mother and stepfather couldn’t save them is secondary to the fact that in his mind he is the one who abandoned them and couldn’t save them from the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
On top of that horrific thought and knowing they must have suffered, is the knowledge that their bodies are in a mass grave. Nameless, homeless, unclaimed and forever beyond reach for him.
When I say emotional I mean his complete detachment from his own experiences and choices, as he tells the story of his life. I think without knowing it Stoessinger has actually opened up a very large window into his heart and soul, perhaps just not the window he planned to present and open in this book.
I received a copy of this book via Edelweiss.
January 30, 2016
In 1938, when John was 10 years old, he witnessed Hitler’s triumphal procession into Austria. With the introduction of the Hitler Youth, his life at school became miserable because he was Jewish. His father had disappeared long ago, and he hardly saw his mother so it was with great joy he received the news they’d be moving to Prague to stay with his grandparents to get away from Hitler’s new rules against the Jewish people. Read the rest of the review on my blog: http://shouldireaditornot.wordpress.c...
October 17, 2018
20th Century Story
This is an interesting book. It tells the story of a well regarded make man who was able to survive the Holocaust and makes a name for himself as an intellectual. He was a survivor. ok
This is an interesting book. It tells the story of a well regarded make man who was able to survive the Holocaust and makes a name for himself as an intellectual. He was a survivor. ok
November 29, 2016
Not well written
This is one of the worst written books I read. The beginning was decent and interesting personal history as a Jewish child under the Nazis. But then it becomes naively self-indulgent with no great insight and seemingly details left out of the story.
This is one of the worst written books I read. The beginning was decent and interesting personal history as a Jewish child under the Nazis. But then it becomes naively self-indulgent with no great insight and seemingly details left out of the story.
September 24, 2015
What an interesting and inspirational story. Through the struggles, perseverance shines on.
November 24, 2016
To Be Discovered
One would never realize that a man's life would be so complex. Yet he was able to transform his lifetime.
One would never realize that a man's life would be so complex. Yet he was able to transform his lifetime.
December 1, 2016
John Stoessinger has wrote a lovely book of his life from Austria to America via China.
January 12, 2017
Interesting. A quick read.
April 11, 2017
This book was fascinating! Following along in this mans life was amazing. His writing is brutally honest without regret. He delves into the human spirit and the tragedy of weakness and ignorance.
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