Prisoner of the Swiss: A World War II Airman's Story
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Dan Culler's The Black Hole of Wauwilermoos first came out in 1995. It was self-published, written in a burst of creative energy over a three-month period during which Dan sometimes worked day and night. A small print run of 1,000 books resulted, and were quickly sold out. Despite its small scale and lack of promotion, Black Hole of Wauwilermoos has become a book that is widely admired and often quoted by World War Two scholars and historians, most recently in Donald Miller's best-selling Masters of the Air.
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I have attempted to stay true to the book's original premise and style. All I've done is tighten it up (it's about half as long as the original). If, upon finishing, one is left wanting more, I recommend the original version of Black Hole, and Dan's memoir of his childhood and young adulthood, The Circle of Thorns: Birth and Learning Years.
Dan is a prolific and thoughtful writer of short stories, poems, and books, most of which he shares only with a few friends. Reading Dan's collected works has allowed me to get to know a man who is at the core intensely guarded and private, a man who has been deeply impacted by his wartime experiences who carries with him a multitude of physical and emotional scars that will never heal. Despite his having lived through the banality and evil of war and imprisonment, despite being betrayed by his own government, he continues to courageously reach out to others. Given every reason to reject a loving God and a rational universe, he continues to be a spiritual man.
We both hope you learn from the book and that it opens your eyes to a little-known story of World War Two.
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