About the Author

Clinton Frederick was born November 24, 1943. For the first several years of his life, he lived on a farm about 30 miles north of Pittsburg, Kansas, and attended a one-room schoolhouse that had a total of eight students, grades one through eight. "I was the skinniest kid of the bunch," recalls Frederick, "and was pretty sickly, too. It was from eating lye soap," he adds with a smile but without explaining the incident.

When the one-room schoolhouse closed, he and his mother moved into the town of Pittsburg while his mother continued her education earning a degree in home economics.

Frederick graduated from Kansas State College of Pittsburg with a degree in business administration, and in 1967, became a certified public accountant. Over the years, his career in accounting took him from Kansas to Washington to Alaska.

Now retired, Frederick says of his life as a CPA, "I tracked down lost numbers, discovered tax loopholes, and helped other people become financially wealthy beyond their wildest dreams." Financial wealth, he quickly points out, is not synonymous with wealth of family, friends and health. "I pursued the wrong career," he jokes.

Throughout his life, he has been intrigued by history and particularly by the events of World War II. "Discovering that letter-filled trunk a few years ago was a gift in so many ways," Frederick says. "Those letters answered so many lingering questions I had not only about my father, but also about the realities of war."

Frederick lives with his wife Kathy in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they raise quarter horses. He can be emailed at clintfrederick@msn.com.

Published by Zonicom Press
Price: $26.95 / Hard cover/ Non-fiction
Size: 6x9, approximately 455 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9778493-0-7

Produced by Five Star Publications, Inc. for Zonicom Press.