ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author, born in Berlin, lived in Europe and Central Asia before and during the Second World War. He personally witnessed the Nazi triumphs in Germany and Poland as well as the rape of central Europe by the partnership of fascists and communists in the late thirties. Subsequent to immigration to the United States in 1948, he completed graduate and medical studies. His biomedical career was focused primarily on academic medicine and research. He quickly rose to professorial ranks and became a Departmental Chairman. While in this capacity he has written numerous (over 400) scientific articles and book chapters and edited a number of scientific books. This book is his first non-scientific work. Currently he is retired and lives with his wife, also a retired professor of biomedical sciences, close to his two daughters and a grandson.