ZigZag Pass - Tapa dura

A memoir that describes the author's harrowing experience as a World War II teenage soldier in the Philippines and, afterward, with the Occupation of Japan. Upon returning home he married his sweetheart. They both earned doctorates. He worked in 20 developing countries to help increase food production. He attributes his distinguished career to his wife's encouragement and his having observed cultures in the Philippines and Japan that differed from that of his youth in Indiana.