Pioneering History on Two Continents

"Pioneering History on Two Continents is as much an eye-opening portrayal of history's tides as it is about one family's determination to survive."—Midwest Book Review

"Both a valuable study and an enjoyable read."—John Sacher, Florida Historical Quarterly

“Bruce F. Pauley skillfully intertwines his family’s experience of immigrating from Europe to the American Midwest with his own research on fascism and communism. The result is a captivating and truly transatlantic history of modern times.”—Gerald Steinacher, Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice

 

“Bruce F. Pauley writes with an accomplished historian’s eye for context and intergenerational change and has skillfully interwoven different narratives in his autobiography. This is great reading for people interested in immigrant heritage, coming of age in the Midwest in the 1950s, the transformative power of international education, Austria, or history as a profession.”—Lonnie R. Johnson, executive director of the Austrian-American Fulbright Commission in Vienna