Arthur D. Kahn

And the Kid Didn't Whimper...1920-1946: the Education of a 20th Century Political Animal Arthur D. Kahn

An account of the childhood and youth during the 1920s and the Great Depression of a psychologically troubled son of impoverished shopkeepers and graduate of a backwater teachers college who survived the emotional stress of a dysfunctional family and overcame obstacles of anti-Semitism to win acceptance at the age of 23 into the elite Army intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services, and advanced from post to post of military service in France and Germany to become after VE Day the editor of the leading intelligence publication in the American zone of Germany