After the Second World War, Ted Fahrenwald never fulfilled his early ambition to be a writer or journalist. Instead he started a family, and along with his brother ran a small steel mill inherited from their father. His writing talent was long recognized by family, however, and after Fahrenwald’s death in 2005, his daughter Madelaine was determined to seek a publisher for his memoir, which until then had only existed as a family heirloom. A second volume of Fahrenwald’s wartime writing, Wot a Way to Run a War, based on his letters home, will be published in 2013.
