God's Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan
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Prologue to Joe's Story xiii\ Survival Lesson xv\ Introducing Joe Haan xvi\ I Spawned of the Tree of Life 1\ To Whom It May Concern\ Letter to Tim Carlson\ Letter to Wendy from "God's Angry Man"\ II "Fish (Fly-Replete in Depth of June...)" 11\ Heaven\ The First Idealist- "A Jellyfish Swam in a Tropical Sea"\ Evolution-"When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish"\ III The Last Iconoclast 21\ Shadow of the Past-the Ghost\ IV Growing Up Poor in St. Paul, 1918-1925 31\ The Haan Family\ Oblivion\ The Roaring Twenties\ An Alcoholic Father\ The Mermaid\ Death of a Sainted Mother\ The Vagabond Road: "Small Frail Hands on a Coffin Gray"\ V The Orphanage, 1926-1928 49\ Equality Dead\ VI A Cruel German Farmer, 1928-1936 59\ Notes on the Farm\ Paradise Disorganized\ VII Riding the Rails, 1936-1939 93\ Pickett's Charge-July 3, 1863\ The Bivouac of the Dead\ Fido's Fate\ VIII Northwoods CCC Camp, 1940-1941 113\ On the Nature of Things\ War\ IX Army Life, 1942-1945 127\ Private Joe Haan-A Soldier's Memoir\ Gott Mit Uns\ Memories of Death\ Sharing a Foxhole with Friedrich Hofman\ Bronze Star Medal & Purple Heart\ Soldier's Lament\ Those That I Fight\ The Open Mouth of Hell\ X After the War, 1946-1992 201\ High Steel\ Ode to Corporal William Cunningham, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry\ Remembering Joe at Vicksburg\ Dominican Republic Notes\ San Pedro, Dominican Republic\ XI Joe's Poems and Songs 241\ 1 Salute to the Stars\ 2 The Question\ 3 Oblivion\ 4 Thinker\ 5 Fido's Fate\ 6 Death of a Galaxy\ 7 The Particle\ 8 Futility I\ 9 Free Thought\ 10 Futility II\ 11 A Star's Terminus\ 12 The 4th Dimension\ 13 Birth of a Sun\ 14 Volcano\ 15 Pestilence\ 16 Dinosaur Feast\ 17 Equality Dead\ 18 The Carnivore\ 19 The Nucleus\ 20 Deception\ 21 Over Population\ 22 Quantum Jump to Within\ 23 The Spoiler Man\ 24 The Slaves\ 25 Leopard's Feast\ 26 Paradise Disorganized\ 27 Prejudice\ 28 Escape Smilodon\ 29 The Mermaid\ 30 Evolution, or Geological Time\ 31 Heresy's Crime\ 32 Death of the Gods\ 33 Conflict of the Gods\ 34 Stars' Atomic Divinity\ 35 The Axis Tilts\ 36 Cockroach: Blattaria Supremus\ 37 Allosaurus\ 38 The Coconut Cartel\ 39 The Round Game\ 40 Why Soldier Why\ 41 Love Lost\ 42 Infidelity\ 43 The Latin Lament\ 44 Suzanna\ XII Joe's Epilogue 293\ Mr. Flood's Party\ XIII "The Greatest Generation"-An Afterword 299\ Blasphemy\ Reminiscence from Alaska\ XIV Joe's Story in Pictures 313\ Acknowledgments 371\ Appendix 373\ 1 Haan Family Genealogy\ 2 Joe's Little Blue Books\ 3 Xotanef Caveman Language\ Bibliography 387\ Index 391\ About the Author
\ Library JournalQuist's uncle Joe Haan was a Minnesota farm boy who endured a lot and became greater for it. Just another dogface in Patton's Third Army with a reputation for brawling, he spent three days pinned down in a foxhole with a dead German. He passed much of that time examining his life and writing about his experiences. A taxidermist, poet, and musician after the war, Joe made a good life but never forgot his companion in that foxhole. The book's three parts (growing up a dirt farmer in Minnesota, marching across Europe at war, Haan family history and genealogy) don't hold together well as one gripping narrative, making this an optional addition to large collections, perhaps more for inspirational or biography categories than for war history.\ \
