Unexpected Odyssey: Danzig To Tennessee

A memoir of a life beginning 5 months after the onset of WW ll, escaping the Russian invasion, living out the war in Frankfurt and immigrating to America. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, being a pizza maker and then eventually graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a ship's engineer. The years at sea evolved in teaching Marine Engineering at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor, as the first professor hired and helped start the Texas Maritime Academy. Upon completion of the first training cruise of Texas Maritime Academy, and a graduate degree, then went on to being a sales engineering executive, then back to graduate school for a doctorate, and an intervening career as an Executive Chef for 16 years. The story concludes with reuniting with an old friend and moving to Tennessee to become a Senior Clinical substance abuse Counselor and anchoring in retirement.

• • Author: Klaus V. Luehning
• • Publisher: Lulu.Com
• • Publication Date: Jul 19, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 713 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1312655046
• • ISBN-13: 9781312655041