FROM DESPAIR TO BLISS -- a memoir by Walt Allen: Growing up During the '40s & '50s

by Walter J. Allen, Mary L. Allen (Contributor), Harriette L. Cady (Contributor)

This is my story about growing up in the Midwest during World War II. A story during the greatest era ever, when men and women made the ultimate sacrifices of all time. This is a story about how an uneducated high school drop-out elevated himself from a Common Labor to a Design Engineer, learned to fly an airplane and obtaining a flight instrument rating. A story of Travels to Europe, our favorite being Normandy, France, and Paris. I would like to share my tribulations with anyone interested in life growing up during the 1940s and 1950s. You can do anything that you want in life if you just put your mind to it!

225 pages, paperback

Published November 22, 2018